# קָדֵשׁ (qadesh)

Israeli respelling: qa-desh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6945. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: sodomite, unclean.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/qadesh-h6945

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 23:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/17) — There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- [1 Kings 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/24) — And 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…
- [1 Kings 15:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/15/12) — And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- [1 Kings 22:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/46) — And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- [2 Kings 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/7) — And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- [Job 36:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/14) — They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.