קדשׁ qâdash kaw-dash' A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)KJV Usage: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitionsקדשׁ 1. to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate a. (Qal) 1. to be set apart, be consecrated 2. to be hallowed 3. consecrated, tabooed b. (Niphal) 1. to show oneself sacred or majestic 2. to be honoured, be treated as sacred 3. to be holy c. (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 d. (Pual) 1. to be consecrated 2. consecrated, dedicated e. (Hiphil) 1. to set apart, devote, consecrate 2. to regard or treat as sacred or hallow 3. to consecrate f. (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 Origin: a primitive root TWOT: 1990 Parts of Speech: Verb