H6945: קָדֵשׁ
qâdêsh · pronounced kaw-dashe' · “male cult prostitute”
Definition
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
KJV translates it as: sodomite, unclean.
Word origin: from H6942 (קָדַשׁ);
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6945 is translated
- cult prostitutes ×2
- male cult prostitutes ×2
- a male cult prostitute ×1
- temple prostitutes ×1
Bible verses with H6945 (qâdêsh)
Qâdêsh appears in 6 verses.
- Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24
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.
- 1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7
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.
- Job 36:14
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.