Strong's #6948: qdeshah (pronounced ked-ay-shaw')
feminine of 6945; a female devotee (i.e. prostitute):--harlot, whore.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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qedêshâh
1) female temple prostitute, harlot
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Usage:
This word is used 5 times:
Genesis 38:21: "of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side?"
Genesis 38:21: "And they said, There was no harlot in this"
Genesis 38:22: "said, that there was no harlot in this"
Deuteronomy 23:17: "There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite"
Hosea 4:14: "with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand"