Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H6945
קָדֵשׁ
qa.desh · “male cult prostitute”
Used 6 times across 4 books
Definition
male temple prostitute
Where it appears
Deuteronomy1
1 Kings3
2 Kings1
Job1
In the text
Deuteronomy 23:18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.1 Kings 14:24And 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 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.1 Kings 22:47There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.2 Kings 23:7And 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 36:14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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