קָדֵשׁ
kadesh · male cult prostitute
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6945 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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kadesh (קָדֵשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “male cult prostitute”.
Cult prostitute: a man devoted to prostitution in the shrine of a foreign god.
How to say it
ka·desh
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
- Man devoted to prostitution in the worship of false gods.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sacred prostitutes ×4
- male sacred prostitute ×1
- sacred male prostitutes ×1
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall not be a female sacred prostitute among the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a male sacred prostitute among the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sacred prostitutes in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations that YHWH had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12
He drove the sacred prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the rest of the sacred prostitutes who remained in the days of Asa his father, he swept away from the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7
He tore down the houses of the sacred male prostitutes that were in the house of YHWH, where the women wove houses for the Asherah.
- Job 36:14
Their soul dies in youth, and their life among the male sacred prostitutes.