קָדַשׁ
to consecrate
also: sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘set apart as sacred’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘set apart’
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself). Here: ‘keep oneself apart from unclean things Lv 11’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘shew oneself sacred’
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘be set apart’
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Form
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
5 distinct verses where H6942 appears in the Pual stem, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 26:18 הַ/מְקֻדָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + Pual ptcp.pass mp and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God.
- 2 Chronicles 31:6 הַ/מְקֻדָּשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + Pual ptcp.pass mp The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps.
Ezra 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, קדש (qâdash) means “to consecrate.” Where the King James Version says “sanctify,” newer translations reach for “consecrate” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. With 154 verses in 23 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at Genesis 2:3, it enters the text early. The verb spans 6 stems, from Qal to Niphal. See the sense tree, 154-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6942 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 154
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 154 distinct verses.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #269
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 269 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 154 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 29 verses 19%
- Exodus 25 verses 16%
- 2 Chronicles 21 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 154 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 69 verses · 45%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 52 verses · 34%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 33 verses · 21%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sanctify 38×, Sanctified 15×, Hallow 9×
- American Standard Version: Sanctify 26×, Sanctified 9×, Hallow 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Consecrate 18×, Consecrate yourselves 6×, Consecrated 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Consecrate 14×, Apart 9×, Consecrated 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6942 across 173 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 55 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6942 across 170 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 67 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6942 across 168 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 66 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6942 across 194 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 69 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
36 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 36 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. ק׳ Ex 29:21; sf. קְדַשְׁתִּיךָ Is 65:5; 3 mpl. קָדֵ֑שׁוּ Nu 17:2; Impf. 3 ms. יִקְדַּשׁ 1 S 21:6; יִקְדָּ֑שׁ Ex 29:37 +, etc.;— e.g. Exodus 29:21
- 1. be set apart, consecrated, hallowed, of shew-bread 1 S 21:6 (dub. passage, but cf. especially RSSem. i. 436; 2nd ed. 455 [also DrSm. 293], who proposes יְקֻדַּשׁ); Aaron and his sons by blood Ex 29:21 (P); other persons Is 65:5 (Di; but Pi. Gei RSSem. i, 431; 2nd ed. 451 Che Du Buhl). e.g. 1 Samuel 21:6
- 2. be hallowed, by contact with sacred things, and so tabooed from profane use, or forfeited to sanctuary Ex 29:37; 30:29 Lv 6:11, 20; Nu 17:2, 3 (P), Hg 2:12. e.g. Exodus 29:37
- 3. consecrated, tabooed (supr.) Dt 22:9 (law against mixtures). e.g. Deuteronomy 22:9
Niphal
- Pf. 3 ms. נִקְדַּשׁ Is 5:16 Ex 29:43, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּקָּדֵשׁ Nu 20:13; 1 s. אֶקָּדֵשׁ Lv 10:3; Inf. cstr. sf. הִקָּֽדְשִׁי Ez 36:23; 38:16;— e.g. Isaiah 5:16
- 1. shew oneself sacred, majestic: c. בְּ pers., + לְעֵינֵי Ez 20:41; 28:25; 36:23; 38:16; 39:27; c. בְּ Is 5:16 Ez 28:22, cf. Nu 20:13 (P). e.g. Ezekiel 20:41
- 2. be honoured or treated as sacred ‖ נכבד Lv 10:3 (P); opp. חלּל שׁם Lv 22:32 (P). e.g. Leviticus 10:3
- 3. be consecrated, dedicated, by כבוד י׳ Ex 29:43 (P). e.g. Exodus 29:43
Piel
- Pf. 3 ms. קִדַּשׁ Nu 6:11 1 K 8:64, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יְקַדֵּשׁ Gn 2:3 +, etc.; Imv. ms. קַדֵּשׁ Jos 7:13; קַדֶּשׁ־ Ex 13:2, etc.; Inf. cstr. קַדֵּשׁ Ex 29:1 +, etc.; Pt. מְקַדֵּשׁ Ex 37:28; sf. מְקַדִּשְׁכֶם Ex 31:13 +, etc.;— e.g. Numbers 6:11
- 1. set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate:
- a. places: Sinai Ex 19:23 (J), altar, etc., Ex 29:36, 37; 30:29 (P), tabern., etc. Ex 40:9, 10, 11 Lv 8:10, 11, 15; Nu 7:1(×2) (P); tent of meeting Ex 29:44 (P); place of sacrifice 1 K 8:64 = 2 Ch 7:7; gate Ne 3:1(×2);—Ez 7:24 v. מִקְדָּשׁ infr. e.g. Exodus 19:23
- b. wave-offering Ex 29:27 (P). e.g. Exodus 29:27
- c. persons: priests Ex 28:3, 41; 29:1, 33, 44; 30:30; 40:13; Lv 8:12, 30; firstborn Ex 13:2 (P); keepers of ark 1 S 7:1. e.g. Exodus 28:3
- d. 7th day (by God) Gn 2:3; Ex 20:11 (P). e.g. Genesis 2:3
- 2. observe as holy, keep sacred: feasts, Sabbath Ex 20:8 = Dt 5:12 (Decal.), Je 17:22, 24, 27; Ez 20:20; 44:24; Ne 13:22; fast Jo 1:14; 2:15; year of Jubilee Lv 25:10 (P); so עצרה לבעל 2 K 10:20. e.g. Exodus 20:8
- 3. honour as sacred, hallow:
- a. God Dt 32:51, his name Ez 36:23. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:51
- b. priest Lv 21:8 (H). e.g. Leviticus 21:8
- 4. consecrate by purification:
- a. places, house of י׳ 2 Ch 29:5, 17(×2), altar מִטֻּמְאֹה, Lv 16:19. e.g. 2 Chronicles 29:5
- b. people העם Jos 7:13 (J), Ez 44:19; 46:20; by washing Ex 19:10, 14 (E); קהל for fast Jo 2:16; Nazirite Nu 6:11 (P), sons of Job Jb 1:5; family for sacrif. 1 S 16:5. e.g. Joshua 7:13
- c. war, or warriors, from custom of opening campaign by sacrifice, (עַל) ק׳ מִלְחָמָה Je 6:4 Jo 4:9 Mi 3:5; Je 22:7; 51:27, 28. e.g. Jeremiah 6:4
- d. of God, keeping his people pure and sacred: אני יהוה מְקַדֵּשׁ Ex 31:13; Lv 20:8; 21:8, 15, 23; 22:9, 16, 32 (H); Ez 20:12; 37:28. e.g. Exodus 31:13
Pual
- Pt. מְקֻדָּשׁ Ez 48:11, etc.;—consecrated, dedicated: priests 2 Ch 26:18 Ez 48:11 (read pl.), things 2 Ch 31:6, feasts Ezr 3:5, warriors Is 13:3. e.g. Ezekiel 48:11
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הִקְדִּישׁ Zp 1:7 +, etc.; Impf. יַקְדִּישׁ Lv 27:16 + 4 times, יַקְדִּשׁ Lv 27:14, etc.; Imv. sf. הַקְדִּשֵׁם Je 12:3; Inf. abs. הַקְדֵּשׁ Ju 17:3; cstr. הַקְדִּישׁ 2 Ch 2:3 +, etc.; Pt. מַקְדִּישׁ Lv 27:15 +, etc. e.g. Zephaniah 1:7
- 1. set apart, devote, consecrate:
- a. places, temple 2 Ch 2:3, city Jos 20:7 (P). e.g. 2 Chronicles 2:3
- b. things Ex 28:38 Lv 22:2, 3 (P); 2 K 12:19; 1 Ch 23:13; 26:26, 27, 28(×2); Ne 12:47 (×2); money Ju 17:3(×2); spoil 2 S 8:11(×2) = 1 Ch 18:11; field Lv 27:16, 17, 18, 19, 22 (H); house Lv 27:14, 15 (H); firstlings Dt 15:19 (D) Lv 27:26 (H). e.g. Exodus 28:38
- c. of God: consecrate temple 1 K 9:3, 7 = 2 Ch 7:16; 20, 2 Ch 30:8; 36:14; prophet Je 1:5; firstborn Nu 3:18; 8:17 (P); devote wicked (as sheep) for sacrifice Je 12:3. e.g. 1 Kings 9:3
- 2. regard, or treat, as sacred, hallow: God Is 8:13; 29:23(×2); + לְעֵינֵי pers. Nu 20:12; 27:14. e.g. Isaiah 8:13
- 3. consecrate by purification: vessels 2 Ch 29:19; persons for passover 30:17; guests for sacrif. feast Zp 1:7 (God subj.). e.g. 2 Chronicles 29:19
Hithpael
- Pf. 1 s. הִתְקַדִּשְׁתִּי Ez 38:23, 2 mpl. (consec.) -דִּשְׁתֶּם Lv 11:44; 20:7, 3 pl. הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ 2 Ch 5:11; 30:17, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִתְקַדְּשׁוּ 2 Ch 29:34 +; יִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ Ex 19:22; Imv. mpl. הִתְקַדְּשׁוּ Nu 11:18 +; הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ Jos 3:5; Inf. cstr. הִתְקַדֵּשׁ 2 Ch 29:34; הִתְקַדֶּשׁ־ Is 30:29; Pt. fs. מִתְקַדֶּשֶׁת 2 S 11:4; pl. מִתְקַדְּשִׁים Is 66:17;— e.g. Ezekiel 38:23
- 1. keep oneself apart from unclean things Lv 11:44; 20:7 (P). e.g. Leviticus 11:44
- 2. of God, cause himself to be hallowed, לְעֵינֵי גּוֹיִם Ez 38:23. e.g. Ezekiel 38:23
- 3. be observed as holy, of feast Is 30:29. e.g. Isaiah 30:29
- 4. consecrate oneself by purification, of priests and Levites Ex 19:22 (J); 1 Ch 15:12, 14; 2 Ch 5:11; 29:5, 15, 34(×2) 30:3, 15, 24; 31:18; 35:6; of people Nu 11:18; Jos 3:5; 7:13 (J); 1 S 16:5; 2 Ch 30:17; Is 66:17; woman 2 S 11:4 she having (just) purified herself מִטֻּמְאָתָהּ RSK. 276 Dr HPS. e.g. Exodus 19:22
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. denom. be set apart, consecrated (Gerber238 ff.);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קָדשׁ
- , v. קָדוֹשׁ
קָדַשׁ
- (b. h.) [to be cut off, separated, v. Ges. Hebr. Dict.12 s. v.; cmp. פָּרַשׁ,] to be, become pure, sacred, holy. Y. Sabb. III, 5ᵈ bot.; ib. IV, end, 7ᵃ ק׳ עליו היום the day became holy upon him, i.e. the Sabbath commenced while he was engaged in doing something. Meïl. II, 8 (10ᵃ) קָדְשׁוּ בכלים (Talm. ed. קדשן) after they have become sacred by being put in a sacred vessel (v. infra); Shebu. 11ᵃ (Ms. F. קידשן). Bekh. 4ᵇ קדשו בכורות וכ׳ the firstborn in the desert were consecrated; a. fr.
- 1. to sanctify, esp. ק׳ שם שמים, or ק׳ את השם to sanctify the name of the Lord, to manifest fidelity to religion by noble deeds, by martyrdom &c. Sot. 10ᵇ; 36ᵇ יוסף שק׳ שם וכ׳ Joseph who sanctified the name … in secret (when he resisted temptation); יהודה שק׳ וכ׳ Judah who sanctified … in public (when he admitted his guilt, Gen. XXXVIII, 26); a. fr. e.g. Genesis 38:26
- 2. to sanctify, consecrate; to purify, keep pure. Ber. 17ᵃ טהר וקַדֵּשׁ עצמך מכל וכ׳ keep thyself clean and pure (aloof) from every guilt &c. Yoma 39ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XI, 44) … אדם מְקַדֵּשׁ מְקַדְּשִׁין אותו הרבה if a man sanctifies himself a little (trains himself to self-restraint), they (the divine agencies) will help him much to sanctify him; מלמטה מקדשין אותו מלמעלה if he (sanctifies himself) below, they will sanctify him from above; בעולם הזה מקדשין וכ׳ he in this world, they will declare him holy in the hereafter. Yeb. 20ᵃ, a. e. קדש עצמך במותר לך sanctify thyself by self-restraint from what is permitted to thee. Ḥag. 3ᵇ, a. e. קִדְּשָׁהּ לשעתה, v. קְדוּשָּׁה. Sebu. 15ᵃ … כל הכלים מְקַדַּשְׁתָּן as regards all vessels that Moses made, the ointing of them gave them their sacred character; Snh. 16ᵇ מקדשן (corr. acc.). Men. 95ᵇ תנור מְקַדֵּשׁ the oven (the baking of the showbread) gives it its sacred character. Ib. 100ᵃ כלי שרת מְקַדְּשִׁין the vessels of the service consecrate (the things put into them); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מְקוּדָּשׁ; f. מְקוּדֶּשֶׁת; pl. מְקוּדָּשִׁים &c. Sabb. 55ᵃ (ref. to Ez. IX, 6) א"ת מקדשי אלא מְקוּדָּשַׁי וכ׳ read not miḳdashi (my sanctuary) but m’ḳuddashai (my sanctified ones), that means those who fulfilled the whole Law &c.; Ab. Zar. 4ᵃ. Zeb. 115ᵇ (ref. to Ps. LXVIII, 36 מִמִּקְדָּשֶׁיךָ) read מִמְּקוּדָּשֶׁיךָ וכ׳ ‘from thy sanctified ones’, when the Lord passes judgment on his holy servants &c.; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 11:44
- 3. (with, or sub., ידיו ורגליו) to wash hands and feet prior to a sacred act. Yoma III, 6. Ib. IV, 5. Ib. 22ᵃ; a. fr.
- 4. to prepare the water of lustration (Num. XIX). Par. VI, 1 המקדש ונפל הקִדּוּשׁ על ידו if he prepares the lustration, and some of the consecrated water falls upon his hand. Ib. 2 נוטל ומקדש he may take (of the ashes) and prepare the water with them. Ib. 3 המקדש בשוקת וכ׳ he who puts ashes into a large vessel of water; a. fr.
- 5. (of seasons) to proclaim the sanctity of esp., a) (ק׳ החדש) to proclaim in court that the new month had begun (v. infra). R. Hash. II, 7 אם לא … אין מקדשין אותו שכבד קִדְּשׁוּהוּ שמים unless the new moon is seen in its due time (on the evening of the twenty-ninth day), no announcement is made, for the heavens have already proclaimed it (and the new month begins with the thirty-first day). Ib. 24ᵃ בין כך שנים אתה מקדש וכ׳ … in neither case is the ceremony of announcement required, for we read (Lev. XXV, 10), ‘ye shall sanctify the fiftieth year’, years thou must sanctify &c. Ex. R. s. 15 אני ואתם נְקַדֵּשׁ את החדש I and you, let us (as a court) proclaim the month (of Nisan); a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. R. Hash. II, 7 ראש ב"ד אומר מק׳ וכ׳ the president of the court says, ‘(the new month is) proclaimed’, and all the people say after him, ‘proclaimed, proclaimed.’ Ib. III, 1 נחקרו … ולא הספיקו לומר מק׳ וכ׳ when the witnesses were examined, and the court had no time to say m’ḳuddash before night set in; a. e.—b) ק׳ השבת, היום to pronounce the sanctity of the Sabbath, the Holy Day &c., to recite the Sabbath or the festive benediction (over wine), to say Ḳiddush. Pes. 105ᵃ מי שלא ק׳ בע"ש מקדש וכ׳ he who fails to bless the Sabbath on the Sabbath eve, may do so during the entire day. Ib. 106ᵇ טעם אינו מקדש if a man tasted something without Ḳiddush, he must not bless the Sabbath; Ib. 107ᵃ טעם מקדש even if he has tasted something, he must bless the Sabbath. Ib. כגון זה ראוי לקַדֵּשׁ עליו a beverage like this is fit for Ḳiddush; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 25:10
- 6. ק׳ אשה [to consecrate a woman,] a) to betroth (expl. Kidd. 2ᵇ לישנא דרבנן דאסר לה … כהקדש the rabbinical term, in place of the Biblical קנה,—because he makes her forbidden to others like a consecrated object, v. הֶקְדֵּשׁ). Kidd. II, 1 האיש מקדש בו וכ׳ a man may betroth a woman either in person or through a deputy. Ib. 41ᵃ אסור לאדם שיְקַדֵּשׁ … עד וכ׳ a man is forbidden to betroth a woman to himself, before he has seen her. Ib. II, 4 האומר … צא וקַדֵּשׁ … והלך וקִדְּשָׁהּ וכ׳ if a man said to his deputy, go and betroth to me that certain woman in that certain place, and he went and betrothed her in a different place, she is not betrothed (the betrothal is invalid); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מְקוּדֶּשֶׁת; pl. מְקוּדָּשׁוֹת. Ib. הרי זו מק׳ in such a case the betrothal is binding. Ib. 7; a. fr.—b) (of the father of a minor נַעֲרָה) to accept a betrothal in behalf of one’s daughter. Ib. 1 האיש מקדש את בתו וכ׳ a man may accept his daughter’s betrothal, if she is a naʿărah, either in person or through a deputy. Ib. 41ᵃ אסור לאדם שיקדש את בתו וכ׳ a man is forbidden to betroth his daughter as a child, (but must wait,) until she is grown up and says, I like this man; a. fr.
- 7. to cause a thing to be prohibited, esp. (by ref. to Deut. XXII, 9) by planting seeds in a vineyard, or vines among seeds; to cause condemnation. Kil. IV, 5 הזורע … ק׳ שורה אחת if a person sows within four cubits of a vineyard, he has caused the condemnation of one row of vines. Ib. V, 5 הרי זה מקדש ארבעים וכ׳ he has made forty-five vines forbidden. Ib. VII, 2 גפן … ואינה מְקַדֶּשֶׁת to plant seeds near a dried-up vine is forbidden, but it (the vine) does not cause the condemnation of the seeds. Ib. 3 אלו אוסרין ולא מְקַדְּשִׁין the following plants make the planting of seeds in their neighborhood forbidden, but do not cause condemnation of the seeds, if planted, or their own condemnation. Ib. 5 אין אדם מקדש דבר וכ׳ no man can cause condemnation of a thing not his own. Ib. הרי זה ק׳ וכ׳ he has caused the condemnation of his neighbor’s seeds and must pay damages; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 22:9
- 1. to be sanctified, glorified as holy. Yeb. 79ᵃ מוטב … ויִתְקַדֵּשׁ שם וכ׳ let a letter of the Law be uprooted (disregarded), but let the name of God be sanctified in public. Tanḥ. Sh’mini 1 מִתְקַדֵּשׁ אני שם במכבדי there (at the dedication of the Tabernacle) I shall be sanctified by (the death of) those that honor me. Lev. R. s. 12; a. fr.
- 2. to be consecrated, dedicated; (of the New Moon) to be proclaimed. R. Hash. 21ᵇ יכול … עד שיִתְקַדְּשׁוּ וכ׳ you may have thought, as well as the Sabbath is to be disregarded (by the witnesses travelling to the seat of the court), until they (the months) are proclaimed, it may also be disregarded (by the messengers carrying the announcement), until they are established. Ex. R. s. 15 היה הכהן … והכלי מִתְקַדֶּשֶׁת the priest received in it some sacred object, by which the vessel was consecrated; וכלי חול מִתְקַדֵּשׁ and a profane vessel became sacred. Shebu. 15ᵃ אין העזרה מִתְקַדֶּשֶׁת וכ׳ the Temple hall was not consecrated, until the priests ate therein the remnants of the meal-offering. Ib. 16ᵃ תחתונה נִתְקַדְּשָׁה בכל אלו the lower reservoir became consecrated through all these (ceremonies mentioned); a. fr.
- 3. (of mixed seeds) to be condemnable, condemned. Kil. VII, 7 מאימתי … מתקדשת from what time are seeds of grain (planted among vines) to be condemned? Ib. אין מִתְקַדְּשׁוֹת are not to be condemned; a. fr.
- 4. to be betrothed. Kidd. II, 1 האשה מתקדשת בה וכ׳ a woman may be betrothed in person or through her deputy. Ib. האומר … הִתְקַדְּשִׁי לי וכ׳ if a man says to a woman, be betrothed to me with this fig. Ib. 45ᵇ נִתְקַדְּשָׁה לדעת אביה וניסת וכ׳ if she (the minor) was betrothed with her father’s consent, but was married without it; a. fr.
- 5. to sanctify one’s self. Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., ch. II, Par. 2 מי שהוא עתיד להִתְקַדֵּשׁ he that is ready to sanctify himself (by vowing a sacrifice).
- 1. to be sanctified; to become consecrated. Tem. 14ᵃ כאן לִיקָּדֵשׁ כאן ליקרב in the one case it refers to being consecrated (by being put in a sacred vessel), in the other to being offered. Bekh. 4ᵇ הוֹזהרו … ליקדש they were admonished concerning the firstborn, that they be consecrated; a. e.
- 2. to be betrothed. Kidd. 48ᵃ if she says, עשה לי … ואֶקָּדֵשׁ וכ׳ make for me chains &c., and I shall be betrothed unto thee.
- 1. to cause sanctification. Zeb. 115ᵇ לא מתו … להַקְדִּישׁ שמו וכ׳ thy (Aaron’s) sons died only in order to give thee an opportunity to sanctify the name of the Lord.
- 2. to sanctify, dedicate an object as Temple property (Lev. XXVII, 14-24). Arakh. VI, 2 המַקְדִּישׁ נכסיו וכ׳ if a person dedicates his property to the Temple, but owes his (divorced) wife her k’thubah (כְּתוּבָּה) &c. Ib. VII, 1 אין מַקְדִּישִׁין לפני היובל וכ׳ you cannot dedicate landed property within less than two or three years before the jubilee. Ib. 3 הִקְדִּישָׁהּ וגאלה if he dedicated and then redeemed it. Ib. 5 אין אדם מַקְדִּישׁ דבר וכ׳ nobody can dedicate a thing not belonging to him. B. Kam. VII, 2; a. v. fr. e.g. Leviticus 27:14
- to be dedicated, consecrated. Meïl. II, 8 המנחות … משהוּקְדָּשׁוּ the law concerning misappropriation of sacred things applies to meal-offerings as soon as they have been dedicated. Ib. 1 משהוּקְדָּשָׁה as soon as it has been designated for a sin-offering; a. fr.—Part. מוּקְדָּשׁ; f. מוּקְדֶּשֶׁת; pl. מוּקְדָּשִׁים &c. Ned. V, 6 (48ᵃ) אם … הרי הם מוק׳ לשמים if they are mine, be they dedicated to the Lord. Ib. כל מתנה … מקודשת אינה מתנה (read: מוקדשׁת) a gift which is not made so that if the recipient dedicates it to sacred use, it is dedicated, is no gift. Bekh. V, 1 כל פסולי המוק׳ all dedicated sacrifices which became unfit for the altar; a. fr.
קְדַשׁ
- , to be sanctified, sacred (v. קְדוֹשׁ). Shebu. 15ᵇ שתי הלחם … דקַדְשֵׁי (Rashi דמִיקַּדְּשֵׁי Ithpa.) it is through the slaughtering of the sheep that the two loaves received their sacred character. Bekh. 4ᵇ דקְדוּשׁ קדוש וכ׳ those firstborn that were consecrated, were consecrated &c.
- as preced. Pi., to sanctify; to proclaim; to betroth &c. Targ. Ex. XXVIII, 41. Ib. XXIX, 1 לקַדָּשָׁא (Y. לקַדְשָׁא). Ib. 44; a. fr.—Targ. Y. Deut. XX, 7 (not דקָדֵישׁ; h. text ארש). Ib. XXII, 16 (h. text נתתי); a. e.—Shebu. 16ᵃ ועזרא קַדּוּשֵׁי ק׳ וכ׳ and Ezra consecrated (the various places), although the Urim and Tummim were no longer extant. Pes. 106ᵃ עיקר קידושא … דכי ק׳ תחלת יומא בעי לקַדּוּשֵׁי the actual sanctification of the Sabbath must take place in the evening, for when one sanctifies the Sabbath, one must sanctify the beginning of the day. Ib. ליקַדֵּישׁ לן וכ׳ please, sir, recite for us the great Ḳiddush, v. קִידּוּשָׁא. Ib. 101ᵃ לקדושי בביתא to recite the Ḳiddush in the house. Ib. 106ᵇ זימנין … מקדש אריפתא at times, when he cared more for bread, he recited the Ḳiddush over bread.—R. Hash. 25ᵃ זיל … וקַדְּשֵׁיה וכ׳ go to ‘En-Ṭab and proclaim the New Moon Day. Ib. אמר … בעינן לקדושי בך וכ׳ he said (to the moon), to-night we desire to initiate the new month through thee, and thou standest here? Ib.ᵇ ולִיקַדְּשֵׁיה בליליא Ms. M. and we may proclaim it at night. Shebu. 15ᵇ דעד דקַדֵּישׁ יומא וכ׳ so that immediately after one has recited the blessing at the exit of the day (הַבְדָּלָה), one might finish the building and consecrate it.—Kidd. 50ᵇ באתרא דמְקַדְּשֵׁי והדר מסבלי where it is customary to send the gifts after betrothal, v. סְבַל. Ib. 59ᵃ לקדושי … לבריה to betroth a wife for his son (as his deputy); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מְקַדַּשׁ; f. מְקַדְּשָׁא, &c. Shebu. l. c. תרוייהו … מְקַדְּשֵׁי both of them are consecrated at the same time. Ib. חדא מי מק׳ how can even one of them be consecrated?—Pes. 101ᵃ ולא מק׳ לכו בבית אכילה (Ms. M. 2 מתקדש) and no Ḳiddush will be recited for you in your dining place; a. fr.
- ; Ithpe. אִיקְּדִישׁ to sanctify one’s self; to be sanctified; (of mixed seeds) to be condemnable; (of woman) to be betrothed. Targ. Ex. XXIX, 37. Targ. Lev. XX, 7. Targ. O. ib. X, 3; a. fr.—Kidd. 54ᵃ ירושלים מי מִיקַּדְּשָׁא is Jerusalem itself consecrated ground? Ned. 31ᵃ כיון דאיק׳ אברהם וכ׳ when Abraham was consecrated (as the bearer of religion), they (the Israelites) were called after him (they are no longer included among ‘the sons of Noah’).—Keth. 62ᵇ אי מִיקַּדַּשְׁנָא (some ed. מְקַדַּשְׁנָא) if I consent to be betrothed unto thee, wilt thou go to college? Ib. אִיקַּדְּשָׁא ליה וכ׳ she was betrothed to him in secret, and she sent him (Akiba) away (to study). Kidd. 9ᵃ אי … מִיקַּדְּשַׁת לי if I give it thee, wilt thou be betrothed to me? Ib. 12ᵃ אשה … לא מִיקַּדְּשָׁא a woman cannot be betrothed with a P’ruṭah; a. fr.—Pes. 105ᵃ זיל חזי אי מִקְּדִישׁ יומא (Ms. M. קדיש) go and see whether the sacred day has begun.
- 1. to sanctify, dedicate. Targ. Lev. XXVII, 14 (Y. ed. Vien. יִקְדַּשׁ). Ib. 15. Targ. Jud. XVII, 3; a. fr.
- 2. to betroth. Kidd. 9ᵇ עד דמַקְדִּישׁ והדר בעיל (Rashi דמקדש) until he betroth her and consummates. Ib. 12ᵃ ההוא גברא דא׳ וכ׳ a man betrothed a woman with a piece of &c., v. כּוֹחֲלָא. Ib. 12ᵇ; a. fr. (interch. with Pa.).
קַדֵּשׁ
- m., v. קַדִּישׁ
קָדֵשׁ
- [cut off, rejected, cmp. חרם] sodomite. Sifré Deut. 260 ק׳ חמור the sodomite whose crime is the severer one (v. infra).—Pl. קְדֵשִׁים. Esth. R. to I, 9 (expl. מעולל, Is. III, 12) ק׳ בהון sodomites were among them (with ref. to ויתעללו, Jud. XIX, 25).—Fem. קְדֵשָׁה prostitute. Sifré l. c. ק׳ קלה the Ḳ’deshah whose crime is a minor one (compared with that of the Ḳadesh). e.g. Isaiah 3:12
קֶדֶשׁ
- (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Kedesh in Naftali, one of the cities of refuge. Macc. 9ᵇ. Y. Meg. I, 70ᵃ bot., v. אַגָּנָא.
קַדַשׁ
- , v. נוּנָא
קֹדֶשׁ
- , v. קוֹדֶשׁ, קוֹדַשׁ, קוּדְשָׁא.
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Forms in the corpus
The 138 distinct written forms H6942 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 78 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6942, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- מקדש miqdâsh H4720 sanctuary
- קדוש qâdôwsh H6918 holy
- קדש qôdesh H6944 holiness
- קדש qâdêsh H6945 male prostitute
Proper names from this root
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 145 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 154 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:3
- Exodus 13:2
- Leviticus 6:18
- Numbers 3:13
- Deuteronomy 5:12
- Joshua 3:5
- Judges 17:3
- 1 Samuel 7:1
- 2 Samuel 8:11
- 1 Kings 8:64
- 2 Kings 10:20
- 1 Chronicles 15:12
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
