# H6942 קָדַשׁ

קָדַשׁ (qâdash), Strong’s H6942: to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally) KJV: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er…

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*qâdash* — to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)

KJV: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep…

Occurs 175 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קָדַשׁ vb. denom. be set apart, consecrated
- Qal
- 1 be set apart, consecrated, hallowed
- 2 be hallowed, by contact with sacred things, and so tabooed from profane use, or forfeited to sancturay
- 3 consecrated, tabooed (supr.)
- Niph.
- 1 shew oneself sacred, majestic
- 2 be honored or treated as sacred
- 3 be consecrated, dedicated
- Pi.
- 1 set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate
- 2 observe as holy, keep sacred
- 3 honor as sacred, hallow
- 4 consecrate by purification
- Pu. consecrated, dedicated
- Hiph.
- 1 set apart, consecrate
- 2 regard or treat, as sacred, hallowed
- 3 consecrate by purification
- Hithp.
- 1 keep oneself apart from unclean things
- 2 of God, cause himself to be hallowed
- 3 be observed as holy
- 4 consecrate oneself by purification, of priests and Levites

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=3) — God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- [Exodus 13:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=2) — “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It…
- [Exodus 19:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=10) — The LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
- [Exodus 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=14) — Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
- [Exodus 19:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=22) — Let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out on them.”
- [Exodus 19:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=23) — Moses said to the LORD, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the…
- [Exodus 20:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=8) — “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- [Exodus 20:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=11) — for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore…
- [Exodus 28:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=3) — You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s…
- [Exodus 28:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=38) — It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel…