Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
male cult prostitute
Usage: male temple prostitute
Qadesh means “sodomite” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6945 קָדֵשׁ (qadesh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qadesh (kaw-dashe') n-m. 1. a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry [from H6942] It has 6 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include sodomites, israel, land, out, and lord. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
qadesh (kaw-dashe') n-m. 1. a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry [from H6942] KJV: sodomite, unclean. Root(s): H6942
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male cult prostitute
Usage: male temple prostitute
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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6 indexed usages in Old Testament.
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6945.
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6945, grouped by book.
Qadesh (Strong's H6945) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sodomite". qadesh (kaw-dashe') n-m. 1. a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry [from H6942]
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's H6945 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6945 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sodomites, israel, land, out, lord, and took. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.