= man employed to have sexual intercourse with other people as part of local fertility rites; forbidden under Mosaic law
male temple prostitute
Prostitutes
= woman employed to have sexual intercourse with other people as part of local fertility rites; forbidden under Mosaic law
(female) temple prostitute
Names of Locations
= town, also known as En Mishpat , Kedesh, and Kadesh Barnea; located in the Wilderness of Zin, in the northern part of Sinai peninsula; Israelites encamped there on their way from Egypt to Canaan; it is also the location of the Meribah spring; spies were sent out into Canaan from this place; it later marked the southern border of the territory of Judah