Strong’s H6948 · Hebrew
קְדֵשָׁה
qᵉdêshâh · ked-ay-shaw'
Origin feminine of קָדֵשׁ (H6945);
Meaning a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)
In the King James Version harlot, whore.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 38:21Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
- Genesis 38:22And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
- Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- Hosea 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
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.