H6948Noun, feminine5 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 38:21הַקְּדֵשָׁה
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- Deuteronomy 23:17קְדֵשָׁה
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- Hosea 4:14הַקְּדֵשׁוֹת
I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
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.