Strong H6945קָדֵשׁ

male cult prostitute

Transliteration: qâdêsh
Pronunciation: kaw-dashe'
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H6942; a (quasi) sacred {person} that {is} (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry: - {sodomite} unclean.

Detailed definition

male temple prostitute

In the Bible

Strong H6945 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

sodomite5
unclean1

First verses

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
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 children of Israel.
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
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
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
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

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