kadash · consecrate, be holy

What it means

kadash (קָדַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “consecrate, be holy”.

Set something apart for God, declare it holy; be holy. God set apart the seventh day as a day different from the others.

How to say it

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. To be holy, set apart for God.
2. To set apart people, things or a day for God.
3. To prepare to come before God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To be holy; in the causative form, to sanctify or consecrate: to set something or someone apart for God. BDB: to be set apart, consecrated; causatively, to consecrate, hallow or keep as holy. It is the verb of the family of קֹדֶשׁ, “holiness” (H6944).

• Elohim made the seventh day holy Genesis 2:3Exodus 20:8
• Consecrating persons or the altar Exodus 19:10Exodus 29:36
• “Sanctify yourselves and be holy” Leviticus 11:44
• “I {am} YHWH, who sanctifies you” Leviticus 20:8
• Calling a sacred gathering: “Consecrate a fast” Joel 1:14

How we translate it

Forms of “consecrate” (consecrate 40, consecrated 31, consecrates 4…) and of “sanctify” (sanctify 18, sanctified 17, who sanctifies 9…); with the Sabbath, “keep holy” (Exodus 20:8). The forms alternate according to the passage, within the family that this edition sets for קדשׁ, “holy / holiness”; the reflexive form is “sanctify oneself”.

How it is translated

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

• consecrate ×40
• consecrated ×31
• sanctify ×18
• sanctified ×17
• Sanctify yourselves ×9
• sanctified themselves ×9
• who sanctifies ×9
• consecrates ×4
• keep holy ×4
• he consecrates ×3
• others ×29

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×28
• Leviticus×31
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×4
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×8
• 2 Chronicles×25
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×5
• Job×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×9
• Ezekiel×16
• Joel×4
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 2:3

  And Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he ceased from all his work that Elohim had created to make.

• Exodus 13:2

  “Consecrate to me every firstborn; the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, of people and of animals, is mine.”

• Exodus 19:10

  YHWH said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments

• Exodus 19:14

  Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

• Exodus 19:22

  And also the priests who come near to YHWH must consecrate themselves, lest YHWH break out against them.”

• Exodus 19:23

  Moses said to YHWH, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’ ”

• Exodus 20:8

  Remember the day of the Sabbath, to keep it holy.

• Exodus 20:11

  For in six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; that is why YHWH blessed the day of the Sabbath and made it holy.

• Exodus 28:3

  And you shall speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, that they make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him to serve as priest for me.

• Exodus 28:38

  It shall be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate, in all their holy gifts; it shall be on his forehead continually, for their acceptance before YHWH.

• Exodus 28:41

  You shall clothe with them Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 29:1

  This is the thing that you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve as priests for me: take one young bull and two rams without defect,

• Exodus 29:21

  You shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the oil of anointing and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be holy, and his garments, and his sons and the garments of his sons with him.

• Exodus 29:27

  You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was waved and which was lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.

• Exodus 29:33

  They shall eat those things by which expiation was made to ordain and to consecrate them; but a stranger shall not eat them, for they are holy.

• Exodus 29:36

  A bull for a sin offering you shall offer each day for expiation; and you shall purify the altar when you make expiation for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

• Exodus 29:37

  Seven days you shall make expiation for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.

• Exodus 29:43

  There I will meet with the sons of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.

• Exodus 29:44

  I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 30:29

  You shall consecrate them, and they shall be most holy; whatever touches them shall become holy.

• Exodus 30:30

  Aaron and his sons you shall anoint and consecrate them to serve as priests for me.

• Exodus 31:13

  “And you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Surely you shall keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, so that you know that I am YHWH who sanctifies you.

• Exodus 40:9

  And you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the dwelling and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its utensils; and it shall be holy.

• Exodus 40:10

  And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

• Exodus 40:11

  And you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.

• Exodus 40:13

  And you shall clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may serve as priest to me.

• Leviticus 6:18

  Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it, as a statute forever throughout your generations, from the fire offerings of YHWH. Whatever touches them will become holy.”

• 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 8:10

  Moses took the oil of anointing and anointed the dwelling and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

• Leviticus 8:11

  He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.

• Leviticus 8:12

  He poured some of the oil of anointing on the head of Aaron and anointed him to consecrate him.

• Leviticus 8:15

  He slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar; and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make expiation for it.

• Leviticus 8:30

  Moses took some of the oil of anointing and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; so he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

• Leviticus 10:3

  Moses said to Aaron, “This is what YHWH spoke, saying, ‘Among those who come near me I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored.’” And Aaron was silent.

• 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 16:19

  And he shall sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times and cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 20:7

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

• Leviticus 20:8

  And you shall keep my statutes and do them. I am YHWH, who sanctifies you.

• 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 21:15

  so that he does not profane his offspring among his people; for I am YHWH, who sanctifies him.”

And 133 more times.