Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6948
קְדֵשָׁה
qedeshahked-ay-shaw'
cult prostitute
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qᵉdêshâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6948is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6948
a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)
The King James renders it: harlot, whore.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qedeshah is rendered "cult prostitute". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:21He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
Genesis 38:21הַקְּדֵשָׁ֛ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a cult prostitute2
- a female cult prostitute1
- the cult prostitute1
- the cult prostitutes1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- קְדֵשָֽׁה׃2
- הַקְּדֵשָׁ֛ה1
- הַקְּדֵשׁ֖וֹת1
- קְדֵשָׁ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · feminine singular3HAafsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural1HTd/Aafpa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular1HTd/Aafsa
Genesis
three uses
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- הַקְּדֵשָׁ֛הhakedeshahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the cult prostitute
- קְדֵשָֽׁה׃kedeshahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a cult prostitute
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
- קְדֵשָֽׁה׃kedeshahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a cult prostitute
Deuteronomy
one use
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- קְדֵשָׁ֖הkedeshahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a female cult prostitute
Hosea
one use
I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
- הַקְּדֵשׁ֖וֹתhakedeshotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the cult prostitutes
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.