Strong's Hebrew: 6945. קָדֵשׁ (qadesh) -- a temple prostitute

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Lexicon

qadesh: a temple prostitute

Original Word: קָדֵשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qadesh
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-dashe')
Short Definition: prostitute

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from the same as qodesh
Definition
a temple prostitute
NASB Translation
cult prostitute (2), cult prostitutes (2), male cult prostitutes (2), sodomites (1), temple prostitute (3), temple prostitutes (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. קָדֵּשׁ noun masculine temple-prostitute (man) (compare RS^{Proph. ii. N. 19, and} see Assyrian Sub √); — ׳ק Deuteronomy 23:18; collective 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 22:47; plural קְדֵשִׁים 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14; also feminine קְדֵשָׁה (woman) Deuteronomy 23:18; plural קְדֵשׁוֺת Hosea 4:14; = harlot, feminine singular Genesis 38:21 (twice in verse); Genesis 38:22 (J).

Strong's

sodomite, unclean

From qadash; a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry -- sodomite, unclean.

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