Bible word study

Qadosh (Strong’s H6918): Meaning in the Bible

Qadosh (קָדוֹשׁ) is the Hebrew word numbered H6918 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary. In the King James Bible it is translated holy (One), saint..

• Original wordקָדוֹשׁ
• Transliterationqâdôwsh
• Pronunciationkaw-doshe'
• Part of speechadjective (a)
• Strong’s numberH6918
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or קָדֹשׁ; from H6942;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Qadosh appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Qadosh (H6918) stands behind 116 English renderings in 106 verses across 20 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (38), Leviticus (20), Psalms (15).

How the King James Bible renders Qadosh, by count

• holy65 of 116 (56 percent)
• one39 of 116 (34 percent)
• saints9 of 116 (8 percent)
• saint3 of 116 (3 percent)

Three places to read Qadosh

• Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
• 2 Kings 19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isaiah 17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Qadosh in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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