קָדֵשׁ
qâdêsh · H6945 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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male temple prostitute
A man employed to have sexual intercourse with other people as part of local fertility rites, forbidden under Mosaic law
ExamplesDeuteronomy 23:17 “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
1 Kings 14:24 There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed all the same abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12 He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
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female temple prostitute
A woman employed to have sexual intercourse with other people as part of local fertility rites, forbidden under Mosaic law
ExamplesGenesis 38:21 He asked the people of her place, saying, “Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?” But they said, “There has been no temple prostitute here.”
Genesis 38:22 So he returned to Judah, and said, “I did not find her; and furthermore, the people of the place said, ‘There has been no temple prostitute here.’”
Deuteronomy 23:17 “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁאַרto remain 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 5
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָבַרto pass 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיֵּהwhere? 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עִםwith 2
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- יֶתֶרremainder 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πόρνη pórnē · G4204 · prostitute
- πόρνη (pórnē, G4204) serves as the LXX rendering for קָדֵשׁ (qâdêsh, H6945) in contexts where cult prostitution is in view, translating the Hebrew technical term for a male cult prostitute with the Greek feminine term for a prostitute/harlot to convey the sexual-immorality dimension of the prohibited cultic practice.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Prostitutes001001003011
- The word denotes a male cult or temple prostitute, illustrated by the search for the "temple prostitute" at Enaim (Genesis 38:21-22) and the male cult prostitutes removed from the land by Judah's reforming kings (1 Kings 14:24, 15:12).
- Names of Locations003001010
- This sense is shared with the identically spelled place name Kadesh (קָדֵשׁ (Qâdêsh, H6946)); it is not independently attested in this word's own sampled citations, which all concern cult prostitution rather than a location.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6945. qadesh I. קָדֵּשׁ noun masculine temple-prostitute (man) (compare RSProph. ii. N.…
I. קָדֵּשׁ noun masculine temple-prostitute (man) (compare RSProph. ii. N. 19, and see Assyrian Sub √); — ׳ק Deu 23:18; collective 1Ki 14:24; 1Ki 22:47; plural קְדֵשִׁים 1Ki 15:12; 2Ki 23:7; Job 36:14; also feminine קְדֵשָׁה (woman) Deu 23:18; plural קְדֵשׁוֺת Hos 4:14; = harlot, feminine singular Gen 38:21 (twice in verse); Gen 38:22 (J).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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