Kadesh (Heb. Qâdêsh, “holy place”). 1. Abbreviated form of Kadesh-barnea.* 2. Kadesh on the Orontes, mentioned in the Bible only in 2Sa 24:6 (BJ): “To the country of the Hittites, to Kadesh”. The Hebrew text says: tajtîm Chodshî, “the lowland of Hodsi” (KJV), an unknown place. For this reason, some scholars accept Lucian’s Greek text, j’t-tieim Kad’s, and translate it as “Kades of the Hittites” or “Kades in the land of the Hittites” (a version that assumes the Heb. form jittîm Qâdêsh). . If the reading “Kades of the Hittites” is correct, it would refer to the city of Kadesh on the Orontes -which played an important role in the 2nd millennium BC-, whose king was the leader of a coalition of Syrian and Canaanite princes who fought against Thutmose III at the first battle of Megiddo. Later, it was the scene of a great battle between Ramses II and the King of the Hittites (Muwatallis), in which Ramses almost lost his army. The place is now known as Tell Neb§ Mend, about 70.5 km south of Hamat in Syria. A French expedition conducted excavations there in 1921 and 1922, which were restarted by a British expedition in 1976. Map III, C-4.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
holy. Name of the main oasis in the north of the Sinai desert, southwest of Beersheba, in the southern end of the country of Canaan. This was the point of arrival of the caravans. According to Gn 14, 7, this oasis was initially called Mispat; and it is the same C. Barnea mentioned in Dt 1, 2; Jos 15, 3, and in other places of the Scripture. Abraham lived in Gerar, located between C. and Sur, Gn 20, 1. In Israel’s journey through the desert towards Canaan, C. was the most important stage and where the people remained for a long time, where the disbelief of the Israelites with respect to the Promised Land by Yahweh, after the reports of the spies sent by Moses, for which said generation was condemned to wander forty years in the desert and not see that land, with the exception of Caleb and Joshua, because they were faithful to Yahweh, Dt 1; 9, 22-24; Nm 13; 14; 32, 6 15. In C. Mary, sister of Moses and Aaron, died and was buried, Nm 20, 1.
In C. Korah Dathan and Abiron mutinied against Moses, which earned them the punishment of Yahweh, who were swallowed up by the earth along with their family and all their assets, Nm 16. Here happened what happened with the waters of Meribah, when the thirsty people rioted asking Moses for a drink. He consulted Yahweh and received the order to strike the rock so that water gushed out, but Moses did it twice, which was possibly a lack of faith, for which he received the punishment of not entering the Promised Land, Ex 17, 1 -17; Nm 20, 2-13; 27, 14; Dt 32, 51. As a result of this episode, the site was called Meribah of C., complaint of C.
From C. Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom to ask him to let the Israelites pass through his territory, but before his refusal they passed around the territory of Edom, Nm 20, 14-21. Capernaum, Hebrew Kfar Nahúm, Town of Nahúm. Palestinian city on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee or Lake Genesaret, today Lake Tiberias, whose construction occurred ca. 13th century BC C. Jesus resided in C., Mt 4, 12-13. There was a Roman military detachment there; a centurion approached Jesus and asked him to heal a paralyzed servant, Mt 8, 5-13.
In Lk 7 1-10, it is said that a Roman centurion, learning that Jesus was in C., sent some notables of the city to ask him to cure a military servant, who was sympathetic to the Jews, for he had had a synagogue built in C. In the synagogue of C. Jesus began to teach on Saturday and there he expelled an unclean spirit that had possessed a man, Mk 1 21-16; Lk 4, 31-37. This synagogue was possibly on the same site as the one whose ruins were found, built between the 2nd and 4th centuries. Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to the house of Simon and Andrew, because the former’s mother-in-law had a fever and healed her, after which she performed many cures in the city, Mk 1, 29-34; Lk 4, 38-39. Pedro and Andrés were from C., and to the south of the town a 5th century basilica was excavated, erected on the ruins of a house, which tradition considers to have been that of Pedro. In the synagogue of C.
Jesus delivered the speech of the bread of life Jn 6 24-59. In Jn 4, 4653, there is talk of a royal official who asked Jesus to cure his son, sick in C. While Jesus was in C. with the disciples, a tax collector approached Peter to ask him for the tribute from the Temple , and Jesus sent Peter to the sea to throw the hook and in the mouth of the first fish he took out he found a stater with which he paid the tribute, Mt 17, 24. Being multiple miracles that Christ performed in C., he claims this city, and curses it the same as those of Chorazin and Bethsaida, for not converting, and says that it will be treated more rigorously in the final judgment than Sodom and Gomorrah, Mt 11, 23-24; Lk 10, 13-15.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
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vet, = “holy”. First mentioned in connection with the battle of the kings, in which Lot was taken captive (Gen. 14:7). It was one of the stages of the Israelites. They were detained there for quite some time. From there the twelve spies went out to spy out the land of Canaan. After spending 38 days touring the land, they returned to Kadesh. Miriam died there. It was also there that Moses struck the rock when the people murmured at the lack of water. The water then obtained is known as the “water of Meribah”, or “strife” (Num. 20:13; 27:14; Ps. 81:7), and the “waters of the quarrels in Kadesh” (Ez. 47 :19; 48:28). It was in the wilderness of Paran, at the southern end of the land of Canaan, from where Joshua attacked its inhabitants, and it became part of the boundary of Judah’s possession (Num. 13:26; 20:1-22; 32:8; Deut. 1:2, 19, 46; 9:23; 32:51. Meribah of Kadesh: Josh. 10:41; 15:3, etc.). It is identified as “Ain-Kadès”, about 124 km south of Hebron, and 82 km south of Beersheba, 30° 33′ N, 34° 32′ E.
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
It is commonly called Kadesh-barnea. Possibly means “the holy place of the pilgrimage desert”. It is the site of many important events in biblical history. It was the furthest point that Israel reached on the direct road to Canaan. His site cannot be exactly proven, but all the information we have shows a place now called Ain-gadis, situated about 96 kms. southwest of the Dead Sea and near Saba. It is an extensive region surrounded by hills, bathed by some splendid springs and about 11 days’ journey or about 241 or 257 kms. from Horeb, Deuteronomy 1:1, 19. Other Bible reports that help us locate him are: that Kedarlaomer and his confederates smote the Amorites and Amalekites there, Genesis 14:1-7; and that the well where Hagar stood when he fled from Sarah’s wrath and the angel spoke to her, was between Kadesh and Bered,
Genesis 16:14; and Abraham dwelt between Kadesh and Shur after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 20:1; that he was on the southern boundary of the territory assigned to the tribes when they dwelt in Canaan, Joshua 15:3;
Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28; that it was “in the extremity of the country of Edom”,
Numbers 20:16; Deuteronomy 1:2; who was in the desert of Zin,
Numbers 20:1; 33:36, 37.
It was an important camp of Israel and is so connected with it that it is justified to believe that Israel made its headquarters here for the 38 years, from the sending of the spies until the people entered Canaan.
From here the spies were sent, Israel sinned and God punished them, Numbers 13, 14;
32:8; Deuteronomy 9:23.
Korah’s rebellion, the murmuring of the people, the budding of Aaron’s rod, Numbers 16, 17 (not quite certain that it was here).
The death of Mary, the sin of Moses, Israel is denied passing through Edom,
Numbers 20:1-21; 27:14; Deuteronomy 32:51; Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28. Caleb recounts his actions as a spy, Joshua 14:6-15 (vv. 6-7).
On the southern border of Judah, Joshua 15:3; Ezekiel 47:19.
Japhthah sent a message to the king of Ammon and defeated him, Judges 10 and 11. Mentioned by David, Psalm 28:8.
Other places should be mentioned:
Other places
(1) Mary. This was Israel’s first camp after leaving the Red Sea
(Exodus 15:23; Numbers 33:8ff.). The name is derived from the fact that the waters were bitter and were made sweet by a tree that Moses dropped into them. The name came to be symbolic of any unhappy or bitter experience or condition as in the case of Naomi, Ruth 1:20.
(2) Eliminate Here there were twelve excellent springs or fountains and seventy palm trees. It was the second camp of Israel after crossing the Red Sea (Exodus
15:27). The traditional site is about 101 kms. of the Suez, at Vadi Ghurundal.
(3) Refidim. This is one of Israel’s campsites, somewhere between the Wilderness of Sin and Sinai (Exodus 17:1, 8; 19:2; Numbers 33:14). It is a great contrast to Elim because there was no water there. This fact led to the remarkable miracle of Moses, when he struck the rock, and opened a fountain of water for the nation.
Here Moses was joined by his family and Jethro his father-in-law, who upon hearing of the wonders of
God made by Moses left Midian to meet him (Exodus 18). Here
Moses, with the help of Joshua, Aaron, and Hur, defeated the Amalekites (Exodus
17:8-15).
One might also mention Tabera, where Jehovah’s fire was kindled in the camp, and quails were sent, Numbers 11:1-3, 31, and Hazerot, where Miriam became a leper, Numbers 11:35; 12:1-6.
Source: Geographic Dictionary of the Bible
1. Kadesh-barnea. Place apparently located in the NE of the Sinai Peninsula: a well, a town, and a desert region (Ps. 29.8). When Chedorlaomer and his allies marched south through Transjordan, they entered the area of Mt. from Seir to El Paran, they returned to the NW, they reached En-mispat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated the Amalekites, to return and defeat the kings of the cities of the plain (Dead Sea) (Gen. 14.5– 9). In the narration of the experience that the fugitive Hagar had with God, the well of the Living One-who-sees-me is between “Kades and Bered”, on the way to Shur (Gn. 16.7, 14); Kadesh is also related to the road to Shur in Gen. 20.1. When crossing the desert of Sinai, more than once the Israelites stopped in the region of Kadesh, on the edge of the desert of Paran and Zin (Nm. 13.26; 20.1; Dt. 1.19, 46); from there Moses sent his spies to Canaan. From Horeb or Sinai to Kadesh the journey took 11 days, via Mt. of Seir (Dt. 1.2). From the traditional mte. From Sinai to Dahab, on the E coast of Sinai, along the coast and to Kadesh (Qudeirat), the journey does indeed take 11 days, as Y. Aharoni observes (The Holy Land: Antiquity and Survival, 2, 2/3, pp. 289–290 and 293, fig(s). 7; Dahab).
At Kadesh, after doubting God’s ability to give them the promised land, Israel was condemned to wander for 40 years, until…