# H6945 קָדֵשׁ

קָדֵשׁ (qâdêsh), Strong’s H6945: a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry KJV: sodomite, unclean.. Occurs 6 times.

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

KJV: sodomite, unclean.

Derived from [קָדַשׁ qâdash](https://besorah.bible/word/H6942) (to be)

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קָדֵשׁ n.m. temple-prostitute (man); also f. קְדֵשָׁה (woman) = harlot

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 23:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/23?v=18) — There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- [1 Kings 14:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/14?v=24) — There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove…
- [1 Kings 15:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=12) — He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- [1 Kings 22:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/22?v=47) — The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
- [2 Kings 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=7) — He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the LORD’s house, where the women wove hangings…
- [Job 36:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/36?v=14) — They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.