# קְדֵשָׁה (qedeshah)

Israeli respelling: qe-de-shah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6948. 4 Old Testament occurrences.

a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)

King James renderings: harlot, whore.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/qedeshah-h6948

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 38:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/21) — Then 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 th…
- [Genesis 38:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/22) — And 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 23:17](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.
- [Hosea 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/14) — I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with w…