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Lexicon :: Strong's H6942 - qāḏaš

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קָדַשׁ
Transliteration
qāḏaš
Pronunciation
kaw-dash'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1990

Strong’s Definitions

קָדַשׁ qâdash, kaw-dash'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x

The KJV translates Strong's H6942 in the following manner: sanctify (108x), hallow (25x), dedicate (10x), holy (7x), prepare (7x), consecrate (5x), appointed (1x), bid (1x), purified (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x
The KJV translates Strong's H6942 in the following manner: sanctify (108x), hallow (25x), dedicate (10x), holy (7x), prepare (7x), consecrate (5x), appointed (1x), bid (1x), purified (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
  1. to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be set apart, be consecrated

      2. to be hallowed

      3. consecrated, tabooed

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to show oneself sacred or majestic

      2. to be honoured, be treated as sacred

      3. to be holy

    3. (Piel)

      1. to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate

      2. to observe as holy, keep sacred

      3. to honour as sacred, hallow

      4. to consecrate

    4. (Pual)

      1. to be consecrated

      2. consecrated, dedicated

    5. (Hiphil)

      1. to set apart, devote, consecrate

      2. to regard or treat as sacred or hallow

      3. to consecrate

    6. (Hithpael)

      1. to keep oneself apart or separate

      2. to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God)

      3. to be observed as holy

      4. to consecrate oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָדַשׁ qâdash, kaw-dash'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.
STRONGS H6942: Abbreviations
קָּדַשׁ verb denominative be set apart, consecrated (Gerber238ff.); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ק׳ Exodus 29:21; suffix קְדַשְׁתִּיךָ Isaiah 65:5; 3rd person masculine plural קָדֵ֑שׁוּ Numbers 17:2; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִקְדַּשׁ 1 Samuel 21:6; יִקְדָּ֑שׁ Exodus 29:37 +, etc.; —
1. be set apart, consecrated, hallowed, of shew-bread 1 Samuel 21:6 (dubious Passage, but compare especially RSSemitic i. 436; 2nd ed. 455 [also Drsm.293], who proposes יְקֻדַּשׁ); Aaron and his sons by blood Exodus 29:21 (P); other persons Isaiah 65:5 (Di; but
Pi. Gei RSSemitic i. 431; 2nd ed. 451 Che Du Buhl).
2. be hallowed, by contact with sacred things, and so tabooed from profane use, of forfeited to sanctuary Exodus 29:37; Exodus 30:29; Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 6:20 Numbers 17:2; Numbers 17:3 (P), Haggai 2:12.
3. consecrated, tabooed (above) Deuteronomy 22:9 (law against mixtures).
Niph. Perfect. 3rd person masculine singular נִקְדַּשׁ Isaiah 5:16; Exodus 29:43, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיִּקָּדֵשׁ Numbers 20:13; 1st person singular אֶקָּדֵשׁ Leviticus 10:3; Infinitive construct. suffix הִקָּֽדְשִׁי Ezekiel 36:23; Ezekiel 38:16; —
1. shew oneself sacred, majestic: c. בְּ person, + לְעֵינֵי Ezekiel 20:41; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 36:23; Ezekiel 38:16; Ezekiel 39:27; with בְּ Isaiah 5:16; Ezekiel 28:22, compare Numbers 20:13 (P).
2. be honoured or treated as sacred || נכבד Leviticus 10:3 (P); opposed to חלּלשׁם Leviticus 22:32 (P).
3. be consecrated, dedicated, by כבוד י׳ Exodus 29:43 (P).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular קִדַּשׁ Numbers 6:11; 1 Kings 8:64, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְקַדֵּשׁ Genesis 2:3 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular קַדֵּשׁ Joshua 7:13; קַדֶּשֿׁ Exodus 13:2, etc.; Infinitive construct קַדֵּשׁ Exodus 29:1 +, etc.; Participle מְקַדֵּשׁ Exodus 37:28; suffix מְקַדִּשְׁכֶם Exodus 31:13 +, etc.; —
1. set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate:
a. places: Sinai Exodus 19:23 (J), alter, etc., Exodus 29:36, 37; Exodus 30:29 (P), tabernacle, etc. Exodus 40:9, 10, 11; Leviticus 8:10, 11, 15; Numbers 7:1 (twice in verse) (P); tent of meeting Exodus 29:44 (P); place of sacrifice 1 Kings 8:64 2 Chronicles 7:7; gate Nehemiah 3:1 (twice in verse); — Ezekiel 7:24 see מִקְדָּשׁ below
b. wave-offering Exodus 29:27 (P).
c. persons: priests Exodus 28:3, 41; Exodus 29:1, 33, 44; Exodus 30:30; Exodus 40:13; Leviticus 8:12, 30; firstborn Exodus 13:2 (P); keepers of ark 1 Samuel 7:1.
d. 7th day (by God) Genesis 2:3; Exodus 20:11 (P).
2. observe as holy, keep sacred: feasts, Sabbath Exodus 20:8 = Deuteronomy 5:12 (Decal.), Jeremiah 17:22, 24, 27; Ezekiel 20:20; Ezekiel 44:24; Nehemiah 13:22; fast Joel 1:14; Joel 2:15; year of Jubilee Leviticus 25:10 (P); so עצרה לבעל 2 Kings 10:20.
3. honour as sacred, hallow:
a. God Deuteronomy 32:51, his name Exodus 36:23.
b. priest Leviticus 21:8 (H).
4. consecrate by purification:
a. places, house of י׳ 2 Chronicles 29:5, 17 (twice in verse), alter מִטֻּמְאֹת, Leviticus 16:19.
b. people העם Joshua 7:13 (J), Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 46:20; by washing Exodus 19:10, 14 (E); קהל for fast Joel 2:16; Nazirite Numbers 6:11 (P), sons of Job Job 1:5; family for sacrifice 1 Samuel 16:5.
c. war, or warriors, from custom of opening campaign by sacrifice, (עַל) מִלְחָמָה ק׳ Jeremiah 6:4; Joel 4:9; Micah 3:5; Jeremiah 22:7; Jeremiah 51:27, 28.
d. of God, keeping his people pure and sacred: אני יהוה מְקַדֵּשׁ Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 20:8; Leviticus 21:8, 15, 23; Leviticus 22:9, 16, 32 (H), Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 37:28.
Pu. Participle מְקֻדָּשׁ Ezekiel 48:11, etc.; — consecrated, dedicated: priests 2 Chronicles 26:18; Ezekiel 48:11 (read plural), things 2 Chronicles 31:6, feasts Ezra 3:5, warriors Isaiah 13:3.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִקְדִּישׁ Zephaniah 1:7 +, etc.; Imperfect יַקְדּישׁ Leviticus 27:16 + 4 times, יַקְדִּשׁ Leviticus 27:14, etc.; Imperative suffix הַקְדִּשֵׁם Jeremiah 12:3; Infinitive absolute הַקְדֵּשׁ Judges 17:3; construct הַקְדִּישׁ 2 Chronicles 2:3 +, etc.; Participle מַקְדִּישׁ Leviticus 27:15 +, etc.
1. set apart, devote, consecrate:
a. places, temple 2 Chronicles 2:3, city Joshua 20:7 (P).
b. things Exodus 28:28; Leviticus 22:2, 3(P) 2 Kings 12:19; 1 Chronicles 23:13; 1 Chronicles 26:26, 27, 28 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 12:47 (twice in verse); money Judges 17:3 (twice in verse); spoil 2 Samuel 8:11 (twice in verse) = 1 Chronicles 18:11; field Leviticus 27:16, 17, 18, 19, 22 (H); house Leviticus 27:14, 15 (H); firstlings Deuteronomy 15:19 (D) Leviticus 27:26 (H).
c. of God: consecrate temple 1 Kings 9:3, 7 2 Chronicles 7:16, 20; 30:8; 36:14; prophet Jeremiah 1:5; firstborn Numbers 3:13; Numbers 8:17 (P); devote wicked (as sheep) for sacrifice Jeremiah 12:3.
2. regard, or treat, as sacred, hallow: God Isaiah 8:13; Isaiah 29:23 (twice in verse); + לְעֵינֵי person Numbers 20:12; Numbers 27:14.
3. consecrate by purification: vessels 2 Chronicles 29:19; persons for Passover 2 Chronicles 30:17; guests for sacrificial feast Zephaniah 1:7 (God subject).
Hithp. Perfect, 1st person singular הִתְקַדִּשְׁתִּי Ezekiel 38:23, 2nd person masculine plural (consecutive) דִּשְׁתֶּם - Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7, 3rd person plural הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ 2 Chronicles 5:11; 30:17, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִתְקַדְּשׁוּ 2 Chronicles 29:34 +; יִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ Exodus 19:22; Imperative masculine plural הִתְקַדְּשׁוּ Numbers 11:18 +; הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ Joshua 3:5; Infinitive construct הִתְקַדֵּשֹׁ 2 Chronicles 29:34; הִתְקַדֶּשֿׁ Isaiah 30:29; Perfect feminine singular מִתְקַדֶּשֶׁת 2 Samuel 11:4; plural מִתְקַדְּשִׁים Isaiah 66:17; —
1. keep oneself apart from unclean things Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7 (P).
2. of God, cause himself to be hallowed, לְעֵינֵי גּוֺיִם Ezekiel 38:23.
3. be observed as holy, of feast Isaiah 30:29.
4. consecrate oneself by purification, of priests and Levites Exodus 19:22 (J), 1 Chronicles 15:12, 14; 2 Chronicles 5:11; 29:5, 15, 34 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 30:3, 15, 24; 31:18; 35:6; of people Numbers 11:18; Joshua 3:5; Joshua 7:13 (J) 1 Samuel 16:5; 2 Chronicles 30:17; Isaiah 66:17; woman 2 Samuel 11:4 she having (just) purified herself מִטֻּמְאָתָהּ RsK. 276 Dr HPS.
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Strong's Number H6942 matches the Hebrew קָדַשׁ (qāḏaš),
which occurs 173 times in 154 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (2Ch 29:19–Joe 2:16)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:34 - But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:3 - for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8 - Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:15 - And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:24 - For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:6 - And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:18 - They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by[fn] Moses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:5 - and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1 - Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:47 - And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:22 - Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed[fn] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:16 - But the LORD of hosts is exalted[fn] in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:13 - But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:3 - I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:23 - For when he sees his children,
the work of my hands, in his midst,
they will sanctify my name;
they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 - who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17 - “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:4 - “Prepare war against her;
arise, and let us attack at noon!
Woe to us, for the day declines,
for the shadows of evening lengthen!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3 - But you, O LORD, know me;
you see me, and test my heart toward you.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:22 - And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - “‘But if you listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:27 - But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:7 - I will prepare destroyers against you,
each with his weapons,
and they shall cut down your choicest cedars
and cast them into the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 - “Set up a standard on the earth;
blow the trumpet among the nations;
prepare the nations for war against her;
summon against her the kingdoms,
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 - Prepare the nations for war against her,
the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,
and every land under their dominion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24 - I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places[fn] shall be profaned.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:12 - Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:20 - and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:22 - and say, Thus says the Lord GOD:
“Behold, I am against you, O Sidon,
and I will manifest my glory in your midst.
And they shall know that I am the LORD
when I execute judgments in her
and manifest my holiness in her;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:23 - And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:28 - Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:16 - You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:23 - So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27 - when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:19 - And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:24 - In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:11 - This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the LORD your God,
and cry out to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Blow the trumpet in Zion;
consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
gather the children,
even nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.

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