Male cult prostitute
קָדֵשׁStrong’s H6945qadesh (qa-desh)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qadesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “male cult prostitutes”, “male cult prostitute” and “cult prostitute”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.”
Meaning
- Male temple prostitute
How it's translated
- the male cult prostitutes 2
- a male cult prostitute 1
- cult prostitute 1
- the cult prostitute 1
- among the temple prostitutes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- Job 36:14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Hebrew dictionary
קָדֵשׁ qadesh · male cult prostitute
male temple prostitute
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.