consecrate
Hebrew, "Qodesh", means "set apart" for God. Translated, "holy," (Exodus 28:2); "consecrate," (Exodus 28:3). Often translated, "sanctify." See summary,
( See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:3).
This is always the fundamental idea of a holy, consecrated, separated, or sanctified person or thing -- something set apart for God. Infinite confusion would have been spared the reader if "qodesh" had been uniformly translated, "set apart."