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קָדוֹשׁ

kadosh · holy, Holy One

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6918 · appears 118 times in the Bible

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What it means

kadosh (קָדוֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “holy, Holy One”.

Holy: set apart for God, different from what is common. As a noun, "the Holy One" (God) or holy ones.

How to say it

ka·dosh

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Set apart for God, distinct from the common.
  2. God, the one wholly set apart and pure, God of Israel.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Holy: set apart for God, different from what is common. BDB: sacred, ceremonially or morally; as a noun, God by eminence, an angel, a saint, a sanctuary. Of the family of קָדַשׁ, “to sanctify” (H6942), and קֹדֶשׁ, “holiness” (H6944).

How we translate it

“Holy” 68 times, “Holy One” 48, “holiness” 1, “saints” 1. This edition sets קָדוֹשׁ / קֹדֶשׁ = “holy / holiness”. קְדוֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל is a descriptive title and is translated, “the Holy One of Israel”, with capital letters; it is not a proper name.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • holy ×68
  • Holy One ×48
  • holiness ×1
  • saints ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Exodus 19:6

    and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel.”

  • Exodus 29:31

    You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

  • Leviticus 6:16

    What is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.

  • Leviticus 6:26

    The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

  • Leviticus 6:27

    Whatever touches its flesh will become holy; and when some of its blood spatters on a garment, the part on which it spattered you shall wash in a holy place.

  • Leviticus 7:6

    Every male among the priests may eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is a most holy thing.

  • Leviticus 10:13

    You shall eat it in a holy place, for it is your portion and the portion of your sons from the fire offerings of YHWH; for so I have been commanded.

  • Leviticus 11:44

    For I am YHWH your Elohim; sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. And do not make yourselves unclean with any swarming thing that creeps on the earth.

  • Leviticus 11:45

    For I am YHWH who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your Elohim; so you shall be holy, for I am holy.”

  • Leviticus 16:24

    And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make expiation for himself and for the people.

  • Leviticus 19:2

    “Speak to all the community of the sons of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, YHWH your Elohim, am holy.

  • Leviticus 20:7

    So sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am YHWH your Elohim.

  • Leviticus 20:26

    And you shall be holy to me, for I, YHWH, am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

  • Leviticus 21:6

    They shall be holy to their Elohim and shall not profane the name of their Elohim, for they present the fire offerings of YHWH, the food of their Elohim; so they shall be holy.

  • Leviticus 21:7

    They shall not take a woman who is a prostitute or profaned, and they shall not take a woman divorced from her husband, for he is holy to his Elohim.

  • Leviticus 21:8

    And you shall sanctify him, for he presents the food of your Elohim; he shall be holy to you, for I, YHWH, who sanctifies you, am holy.

  • Leviticus 24:9

    And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy for him from the fire offerings of YHWH, a portion forever.”

  • Numbers 5:17

    And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the dwelling the priest shall take and put it into the water.

  • Numbers 6:5

    All the days of his vow of consecration no razor shall pass over his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separates himself to YHWH, he shall be holy; he shall let grow loose the hair of his head.

  • Numbers 6:8

    All the days of his consecration he is holy to YHWH.

  • Numbers 15:40

    so that you will remember and do all my commandments and be holy to your Elohim.

  • Numbers 16:3

    And they assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “Enough of you! For all the community, all of them, are holy, and YHWH is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of YHWH?”

  • Numbers 16:5

    And he spoke to Korah and to all his community, saying, “In the morning YHWH will make known who is his, and who is holy, and he will bring him near to himself; and the one whom he chooses he will bring near to himself.

  • Numbers 16:7

    and put fire in them and lay incense on them before YHWH tomorrow, and the man whom YHWH chooses, he shall be the holy one. Enough of you, sons of Levi!”

  • Numbers 18:8

    And YHWH spoke to Aaron, “And I, look, I have given you the charge of my contributions, of all the holy things of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

  • Numbers 18:32

    And you shall not bear sin because of it, when you set apart the best of it from it; and you shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, so that you will not die.’”

  • Deuteronomy 7:6

    For you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim; YHWH your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for him, his special treasure, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

  • Deuteronomy 14:2

    for you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim, and YHWH has chosen you to be for him a people, his special treasure, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

  • Deuteronomy 14:21

    You shall not eat any carcass; to the resident alien who is within your gates you may give it, and he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

  • Deuteronomy 23:14

    For YHWH your Elohim walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give your enemies before you; so your camp shall be holy, so that he may not see among you the nakedness of anything and turn away from you.

  • Deuteronomy 26:19

    and to set you high above all the nations that he has made, for praise and for renown and for beauty, and that you will be a holy people to YHWH your Elohim, as he has spoken.

  • Deuteronomy 28:9

    YHWH will establish you for himself as a holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim and walk in his ways.

  • Deuteronomy 33:3

    Yes, he loves the peoples; all his holy ones are in your hand; and they bow down at your feet; each one receives of your words.

  • Joshua 24:19

    And Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve YHWH, for he is a holy Elohim; he is a jealous El; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

  • 1 Samuel 2:2

    There is none holy like YHWH, for there is no one besides you; and there is no Rock like our Elohim.

  • 1 Samuel 6:20

    And the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before YHWH, this holy Elohim? And to whom shall he go up from us?”

  • 2 Kings 4:9

    She said to her husband, “Look, please, I know that he is a holy man of Elohim who passes by us continually.

  • 2 Kings 19:22

    Whom have you taunted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

  • 2 Chronicles 35:3

    He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to YHWH, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built; it is no longer a burden for you on the shoulder. Now serve YHWH your Elohim and his people Israel.

  • Nehemiah 8:9

    And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who made the people understand, said to all the people, “This day is holy to YHWH your Elohim; do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law.

And 78 more times.