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Strong’s H6945 · Hebrew

קָדֵשׁ

qâdêsh · kaw-dashe'

Origin from קָדַשׁ (H6942);

Meaning a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry

In the King James Version sodomite, unclean.

In 6 verses of the King James Version

  1. Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 Kings 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  4. 1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
  5. 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.
  6. Job 36:14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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