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Lexicon :: Strong's H6918 - qāḏôš

Aa
קָדוֹשׁ
Transliteration
qāḏôš
Pronunciation
kaw-doshe'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1990b

Strong’s Definitions

קָדוֹשׁ qâdôwsh, kaw-doshe'; or קָדֹשׁ qâdôsh; from H6942; sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary:—holy (One), saint.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 116x

The KJV translates Strong's H6918 in the following manner: holy (65x), Holy One (39x), saint (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 116x
The KJV translates Strong's H6918 in the following manner: holy (65x), Holy One (39x), saint (12x).

  1. sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָדוֹשׁ qâdôwsh, kaw-doshe'; or קָדֹשׁ qâdôsh; from H6942; sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary:—holy (One), saint.
STRONGS H6918: Abbreviations
† קָדוֺשׁ adjective sacred, holy; — absolute ק׳ Exodus 19:6 +; קָדשׁ Exodus 29:31 +; construct קְדוֺשׁ Isaiah 1:4 +; קְדשׁ Isaiah 49:7 + 2 times; suffix קְדשִׁי Habakkuk 1:12; קְדוֺשׁוֺ Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 49:7 קְדוֺשְׁכֶם Isaiah 43:15; plural קְדוֺשִׁים Hosea 12:1 + 2 times, קְדשׁים Leviticus 11:44 + 16 times; suffix קְדשָׁיו Deuteronomy 33:3; Psalm 34:10, קְדשָׁו֯ Job 15:15; —
1. of God, as separate, apart, and so sacred, holy:
a. exalted on theophanic throne Isaiah 6:3 (3 times in verse), Psalm 22:4 heavenly throne Isaiah 57:15; in victory Isaiah 5:16; 1 Samuel 2:2; Psalm 99:3 (|| נוֺרָא), Psalm 99:5; Psalm 99:9; וְנוֺרָא ק׳ שְׁמוֺ Psalm 111:9.
b. separate from human infirmity, impurity, and sin: Joshua 24:19 (E), 1 Samuel 6:20; Habakkuk 1:12; קדושׁ אני כ׳ Leviticus 11:44, 45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:26; Leviticus 21:8 (H); קדושׁ בְּקִרְבְּךָ Hosea 11:9; בישׂראל ק׳ Ezekiel 39:7.
c. קְדוֺשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל = divine name (originating from trisagion, Isaiah 6:3) Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 5:19, 24; Isaiah 10:20; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 17:7; Isaiah 29:19; Isaiah 30:11, 12, 15; Isaiah 31:1; Is :2; Isaiah 41:14, 16, 20; Isaiah 43:3, 14; Isaiah 45:11; Isaiah 47:4; Isaiah 48:17; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:9, 14 elsewhere only 2 Kings 19:22 = Isaiah 37:23; Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 51:5; Psalm 71:22; Psalm 78:41; Psalm 89:19; יעקב ק׳ Isaiah 29:23, קְדוֺשׁוֺ Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 49:7, קְדוֺשְׁכֶם Isaiah 43:15; קָדוֺשׁ Isaiah 40:25; Habakkuk 3:3; Job 6:10, plural intensive שׁים (ו) קד Hosea 12:1; Proverbs 9:10; Proverbs 30:3.
2.
a. of place, sacred, holy, chambers of priests Ezekiel 42:13, camp of Israel Deuteronomy 23:15, + מָרוֺם of heaven Isaiah 57:15 (but of י׳ Du Ry, and [reading בְּק׳ as holy, ב essent.] Klo Che Marti); in following (often defective) pointing dubious, read probably קֹדֶשׁ 2: ם ק׳ (ו)מק of the court of tabernacle, Exodus 29:31; Leviticus 6:9; Leviticus 6:19; Leviticus 6:20; Leviticus 7:6; Leviticus 10:13; Leviticus 16:24; Leviticus 24:9 (P), of Jerusalem Ecclesiastes 8:10; מִשְׁכְּנֵי ק׳ עליון Psalm 46:5; הֵיכָלָ֑ךָ ק׳ Psalm 65:5.
b. persons: priests Leviticus 21:7, 8; Numbers 16:5, 7 (P), Aaron Psalm 106:16, Levites 2 Chronicles 35:3, prophet 2 Kings 4:9, Nazirite Numbers 6:5, 8 (P), Israel גּוֺי ק׳ Exodus 19:6 (E), עם ק׳ Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 14:2, 21; Deuteronomy 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:9; כָּלהָֿעֵדָה Numbers 16:3 (P); remnant in Jerusalem Isaiah 4:3; קדשׁים sacred Leviticus 11:44, 45; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7, 26; Leviticus 21:6; Numbers 15:40; קדשׁים sacred ones, saints Deuteronomy 33:3 (song), Psalm 16:3; Psalm 34:10; Daniel 8:24.
c. angels, Psalm 89:6; Psalm 89:8; Job 5:1; Job 15:15; Zechariah 14:5; Daniel 8:13 (twice in verse).
d. מים קדשׁים Numbers 5:17 holy water.
e. time (לי׳) הַיּוֺם ק׳ Nehemiah 8:9, 10, 11; קְדוֺשׁ י׳ Isaiah 58:13, of Sabbath. — (compare Biblical Aramaic קַדִּישׁ).

Biblical Aramaic

קדשׁ (√ of following; Targum Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew id., קָדוֺשׁ above).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

19:6; 19:6; 29:31; 29:31

Leviticus

6:9; 6:19; 6:20; 7:6; 10:13; 11:44; 11:44; 11:44; 11:45; 11:45; 16:24; 19:2; 19:2; 20:7; 20:26; 20:26; 21:6; 21:7; 21:8; 21:8; 24:9

Numbers

5:17; 6:5; 6:8; 15:40; 16:3; 16:5; 16:7

Deuteronomy

7:6; 14:2; 14:21; 23:15; 26:19; 28:9; 33:3; 33:3

Joshua

24:19

1 Samuel

2:2; 6:20

2 Kings

4:9; 19:22

2 Chronicles

35:3

Nehemiah

8:9; 8:10; 8:11

Job

5:1; 6:10; 15:15; 15:15

Psalms

16:3; 22:4; 34:10; 34:10; 46:5; 65:5; 71:22; 78:41; 89:6; 89:8; 89:19; 99:3; 99:5; 99:9; 106:16; 111:9

Proverbs

9:10; 30:3

Ecclesiastes

8:10

Isaiah

1:4; 1:4; 4:3; 5:16; 5:19; 5:24; 6:3; 6:3; 10:17; 10:17; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 29:23; 30:11; 30:12; 30:15; 31:1; 37:23; 40:25; 41:14; 41:16; 41:20; 43:3; 43:14; 43:15; 43:15; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 49:7; 49:7; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 57:15; 57:15; 58:13; 60:9; 60:14

Jeremiah

50:29; 51:5

Ezekiel

39:7; 42:13

Daniel

8:13; 8:24

Hosea

11:9; 12:1; 12:1

Habakkuk

1:12; 1:12; 3:3

Zechariah

14:5

H6918

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Strong's Number H6918 matches the Hebrew קָדוֹשׁ (qāḏôš),
which occurs 119 times in 108 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 19:6–Psa 65:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:6 - and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:31 - “You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:16 - And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:26 - The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:27 - Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:6 - Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:13 - You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, from the LORD’s food offerings, for so I am commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:45 - For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24 - And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:2 - “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:7 - Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:26 - You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:6 - They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the LORD’s food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:8 - You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:9 - And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD’s food offerings, a perpetual due.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5 - “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:8 - All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:3 - They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:5 - and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the LORD will show who is his,[fn] and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7 - put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8 - Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:32 - And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9 - The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:3 - Yes, he loved his people,[fn]
all his holy ones were in his[fn] hand;
so they followed[fn] in your steps,
receiving direction from you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 - But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - “There is none holy like the LORD:
for there is none besides you;
there is no rock like our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20 - Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9 - And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:22 - “Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against the Holy One of Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3 - And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10 - Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:11 - So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:1 - “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 - This would be my comfort;
I would even exult[fn] in pain unsparing,
for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15 - Behold, God[fn] puts no trust in his holy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:3 - As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:3 - Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises[fn] of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:9 - Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no lack!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:4 - There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:4 - Blessed is the one you choose and bring near,
to dwell in your courts!
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
the holiness of your temple!

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