קֹדֶשׁ
qōdeš
apartness
Strong's H6944NounHebrewTWOT 1990aWorship

קֹדֶשׁ (qōdeš) is a Hebrew noun meaning apartness. It appears 467 times in 29 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6944).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1990a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1990a)apartness, sacredness; sacred, sanctity; consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, holiness, saint, sanctuary
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

קֹ֫דֶשׁ noun, masculine: apartness, sacredness

Strong's H6944 קֹדֶשׁ: a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
KJV:consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (× most) holy (× day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1990: קָדַשׁ qādaš — be set apart, consecrated; be hallowed, tabooed; shew oneself sacred, majestic, be honored, treated as sacred, dedicated; set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate, observe as holy, keep sacred, honor as sacred; regard, treat…

See it in Scripture

Exodus 3:5Leviticus 2:3Numbers 3:28

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