Strong’s
H6945Noun, masculine6 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Deuteronomy 23:17קָדֵשׁ
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- 1 Kings 14:24קָדֵשׁ
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 23:7הַקְּדֵשִׁים
He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
- Job 36:14בַּקְּדֵשִׁים
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
קָדֵשׁ n.m. temple-prostitute (man); also f. קְדֵשָׁה (woman) = harlot
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.