6945 - qadesh

Strong's Concordance

Original word: קָדֵשׁ
Transliteration: qadesh
Definition (short): prostitute
Definition (full): a, sacred person, a, devotee, to licentious idolatry

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from the same as qodesh
Definition: a temple prostitute
NASB Translation: cult prostitute (2), cult prostitutes (2), male cult prostitutes (2), sodomites (1), temple prostitute (3), temple prostitutes (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From qadash; a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry -- sodomite, unclean.

see HEBREW qadash

KJV: 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 this place.
NASB: He asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?" But they said, "There has been no temple prostitute here."
KJV: 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.
NASB: So he returned to Judah, and said, "I did not find her; and furthermore, the men of the place said, 'There has been no temple prostitute here.'"
KJV: There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
NASB: "None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.