קָדַשׁ
qâdash · kaw-dash'
to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), [idiom] wholly.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the doorway, the way in › to consume, to destroy
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the doorway, the way in that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָדַשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
171 occurrences · 171 OT · 0 NT · 140 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sanctify14 · 17%
- and sanctified9 · 11%
- to sanctify8 · 10%
- and sanctify7 · 8%
- do sanctify5 · 6%
- prepare4 · 5%
- they sanctified3 · 4%
- had dedicated3 · 4%
- sanctified3 · 4%
- shall sanctify3 · 4%
- which sanctify2 · 2%
- and i will sanctify2 · 2%
- hallow2 · 2%
- thou shalt sanctify2 · 2%
- and thou shalt sanctify2 · 2%
- but hallow2 · 2%
- them shall be holy2 · 2%
- dedicated2 · 2%
- i sanctified2 · 2%
- and if he that sanctified2 · 2%
- them, and sanctify1 · 1%
- shall hallow1 · 1%
- to consecrate1 · 1%
- and hallowed1 · 1%
- to keep it holy1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.