קָדֵשׁ
qâdêsh · kaw-dashe'
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6942 (קָדַשׁ);
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: sodomite, unclean.
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 קָדֵשׁ 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
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the sodomites2 · 33%
- nor a sodomite1 · 17%
- and there were also sodomites1 · 17%
- the sodomites1 · 17%
- is among the unclean1 · 17%
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.