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# קָדוֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6918

**sacred** — used 116 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sacred [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6918/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָדוֹשׁ: adj. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6918/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. sacred, holy;—abs. ק׳ Ex 19:6 +; קָדשׁ Ex 29:31 +; cstr. קְדוֹשׁ Is 1:4 +; קְדשׁ Is 49:7 + 2 times; sf. קְדשִׁי Hb 1:12; קְדוֹשׁוֹ Is 10:17; 49:7 קְדוֹשְׁכֶם Is 43:15; pl. קְדוֹשִׁים Ho 12:1 + 2 times, קְדשִׁים Lv 11:44 + 16 times; sf. קְדשָׁיו Dt 33:3 ψ 34:10, קְדשָׁו֯ Jb 15:15;— of God, as separate, apart, and so sacred, holy: exalted on theophanic throne Is 6:3(×3), ψ 22:4; heavenly throne Is 57:15; in victory 5:16 1 S 2:2 ψ 99:3 (‖ נוֹרָא), v 5, 9; ק׳ וְנוֹרָא שְׁמוֹ 111:9. separate from human infirmity, impurity, and sin: Jos 24:19 (E), 1 S 6:20 Hb 1:12; כי קדושׁ אני Lv 11:44, 45; 19:2; 20:26; 21:8 (H); קדושׁ בְּקִרְבְּךָ Ho 11:9; ק׳ בישׂראל Ez 39:7. קְדוֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל = divine name (originating from trisagion, Is 6:3) Is 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11, 12, 15; 31:1; Is 2 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14 elsewhere only 2 K 19:22 = Is 37:23, Je 50:29; 51:5 ψ 71:22; 78:41; 89:19; ק׳ יעקב Is 29:23, קְדוֹשׁוֹ 10:17; 49:7, קְדוֹשְׁכֶם 43:15; קָדוֹשׁ 40:25 Hb 3:3; Jb 6:10, pl. intens. קד(ו)שׁים Ho 12:1; Pr 9:10; 30:3. of place, sacred, holy, chambers of priests Ez 42:13, camp of Isr. Dt 23:15, + מָרוֹם of heaven Is 57:15 (but of י׳ Du Ry, and \[reading בְּק׳ as holy, ב essent.\] Klo Che Marti); in foll. (often defect.) pointing dub., read prob. קֹדֶשׁ 2: מק(ו)ם ק׳ of the court of tabernacle, Ex 29:31 Lv 6:9, 19, 20; 7:6; 10:13; 16:24; 24:9 (P), of Jerusalem Ec 8:10; ק׳ מִשְׁכְּנֵי עליון ψ 46:5; ק׳ הֵיכָלֶ֑ךָ 65:5. persons: priests Lv 21:7, 8; Nu 16:5, 7 (P), Aaron ψ 106:16, Levites 2 Ch 35:3, prophet 2 K 4:9, Nazirite Nu 6:5, 8 (P), Isr. גּוֹי ק׳ Ex 19:6 (E), עם ק׳ Dt 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:19; 28:9; כָּל־הָעֵדָה Nu 16:3 (P); remnant in Jerus. Is 4:3; קדשׁים sacred Lv 11:44, 45; 19:2; 20:7, 26; 21:6; Nu 15:40; קדשׁים sacred ones, saints Dt 33:3 (song), ψ 16:3; 34:10 Dn 8:24. angels, ψ 89:6, 8 Jb 5:1; 15:15; Zc 14:5 Dn 8:13(×2). מים קדשׁים Nu 5:17 holy water. time הַיּוֹם ק׳ (לי׳) Ne 8:9, 10, 11; קְדוֹשׁ י׳ Is 58:13, of Sabbath.—(Cf. Biblical Aramaic קַדִּישׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 106 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: holy (34); the holy \[one\] (29); \[is\] holy (11).

## In the verses

[Psalms 22:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.4/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֥ה קָד֑וֹשׁ י֝וֹשֵׁ֗ב תְּהִלּ֥וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you \[are\].holy sitting the.praises of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet Thou art holy, O Thou that art enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

[Numbers 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.8/#tree)

כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֑וֹ קָדֹ֥שׁ ה֖וּא לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* all the.days his.consecration his \[is\].holy he to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* All the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6918/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).