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Deuteronomy 23

Deut. 23:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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There shall be no μwhore
qdeshah (Hebrew #6948)
a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)
KJV usage: harlot, whore.
Pronounce: ked-ay-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 6945
d of the daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, nor a sodomite
qadesh (Hebrew #6945)
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
KJV usage: sodomite, unclean.
Pronounce: kaw-dashe'
Origin: from 6942
e of the sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Lev. 19:29• 29--Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy. (Lev. 19:29)
μ
or, sodomitess.
Rom. 1:26• 26For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature; (Rom. 1:26)
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e
Gen. 19:4‑5• 4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest--all the people from every quarter.
 5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them. (Gen. 19:4‑5)
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2 Kings 23:7• 7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah. (2 Kings 23:7)
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Rom. 1:27‑28• 27and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
 28And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things; (Rom. 1:27‑28)

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Cross References

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There shall be, etc.The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations.
Deut. 22:21,29• 21then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought infamy in Israel, committing fornication in her father's house; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.
 29then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. (Deut. 22:21,29)
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Lev. 19:29• 29--Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy. (Lev. 19:29)
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Prov. 2:16• 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words; (Prov. 2:16)
whore.
or, sodomitess.
Rom. 1:26• 26For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature; (Rom. 1:26)
sodomite.
Gen. 19:4‑5• 4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest--all the people from every quarter.
 5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them. (Gen. 19:4‑5)
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Judg. 19:22• 22They were making their hearts merry, when behold, the men of the city, sons of Belial, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him. (Judg. 19:22)
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1 Kings 14:24• 24and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel. (1 Kings 14:24)
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1 Kings 15:12• 12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
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1 Kings 22:46• 46And the remainder of the sodomites, which were left in the days of his father Asa, he put away from out of the land. (1 Kings 22:46)
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2 Kings 23:7• 7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah. (2 Kings 23:7)
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Rom. 1:27‑28• 27and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
 28And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things; (Rom. 1:27‑28)
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1 Cor. 6:9• 9Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men, (1 Cor. 6:9)
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1 Tim. 1:10• 10fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching, (1 Tim. 1:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.