Hebrew

To consecrate

קָדַשׁStrong’s H6942

qadash (qa-dash)

Appears in 152 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qadash is the Hebrew word usually translated “consecrate”, “show myself holy” and “set apart as holy”. It appears in 152 verses of the Old Testament.

“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

Genesis 2:3 KJV

Meaning

To consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Pual) · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

consecrate 10
and you will consecrate 9
and i will show myself holy 6
he will set apart as holy 6
and he consecrated 5
to consecrate 5
consecrate yourselves 5
they had consecrated themselves 5

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 29
Exodus 25
2 Chronicles 20
Ezekiel 14
Numbers 10
Jeremiah 9

23 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 152 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 2:3
Exodus 25: 13:2 19:10 19:14 19:22 19:23 20:8 20:11 28:3 28:38 28:41 29:1 29:21 29:27 29:33 29:36 29:37 29:43 29:44 30:29 30:30 31:13 40:9 40:10 40:11 40:13
Leviticus 29: 6:18 6:27 8:10 8:11 8:12 8:15 8:30 10:3 11:44 16:19 20:7 20:8 21:8 21:15 21:23 22:2 22:3 22:9 22:16 22:32 25:10 27:14 27:15 27:16 27:17 27:18 27:19 27:22 27:26
Numbers 10: 3:13 6:11 7:1 8:17 11:18 16:37 16:38 20:12 20:13 27:14
Deuteronomy 4: 5:12 15:19 22:9 32:51
Joshua 3: 3:5 7:13 20:7
Judges 1: 17:3
1 Samuel 3: 7:1 16:5 21:5
2 Samuel 2: 8:11 11:4
1 Kings 3: 8:64 9:3 9:7
2 Kings 2: 10:20 12:18
1 Chronicles 7: 15:12 15:14 18:11 23:13 26:26 26:27 26:28
2 Chronicles 20: 2:4 5:11 7:7 7:16 7:20 26:18 29:5 29:15 29:17 29:19 29:34 30:3 30:8 30:15 30:17 30:24 31:6 31:18 35:6 36:14
Ezra 1: 3:5
Nehemiah 3: 3:1 12:47 13:22
Job 1: 1:5
Isaiah 7: 5:16 8:13 13:3 29:23 30:29 65:5 66:17
Jeremiah 9: 1:5 6:4 12:3 17:22 17:24 17:27 22:7 51:27 51:28
Ezekiel 14: 20:12 20:20 20:41 28:22 28:25 36:23 37:28 38:16 38:23 39:27 44:19 44:24 46:20 48:11
Joel 4: 1:14 2:15 2:16 3:9
Micah 1: 3:5
Zephaniah 1: 1:7
Haggai 1: 2:12

Hebrew dictionary

קָדַשׁ qadash · to consecrate

: consecate/sanctify 1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be set apart, be consecrated 1a2) to be hallowed 1a3) consecrated, tabooed 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to show oneself sacred or majestic 1b2) to be honoured, be treated as sacred 1b3) to be holy 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate 1c2) to observe as holy, keep sacred 1c3) to honour as sacred, hallow 1c4) to consecrate 1d) (Pual) 1d1) to be consecrated 1d2) consecrated, dedicated 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to set apart, devote, consecrate …

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “consecrate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CONSECRATE, verb transitive

[Latin, to consecrate sacred. See Sacred.]

To make or declare to be sacred, by certain ceremonies or rites; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service and worship of God; as, to consecrate a church.“Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons” Exodus 29:9“All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the Lord” Joshua 6:19
To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
To set apart and bless the elements in the eucharist.
To render venerable; to make respected; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

All definitions and other forms of “consecrate”

CONSECRATE, adjective

Sacred; consecrated; devoted; dedicated.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.