קְדֵשָׁה
qe.de.shah
“cult prostitute”
Definition
a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)
feminine of H6945 (קָדֵשׁ);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
קְדֵשָׁה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”“No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
I will not punish your daughterswhen they prostitute themselves,nor your daughters-in-lawwhen they commit adultery.For the men themselves go off with prostitutesand offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes.So a people without understandingwill come to ruin.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.