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Strong's #6945: qadesh (pronounced kaw-dashe')

from 6942; a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry:-- sodomite, unclean.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qâdêsh

1) male temple prostitute

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6942



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Deuteronomy 23:17: "of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel."
1 Kings 14:24: "And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations"
1 Kings 15:12: "And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols"
1 Kings 22:46: "And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took"
2 Kings 23:7: "And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where"
Job 36:14: "die in youth, and their life is among the unclean."









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