Qâdêsh Barnêaʻ — H6947

Definition

locative proper noun

Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert

1. Kadesh-barnea = "holy"
2. a city in the extreme south of Judah
1. same as 'Kedesh' and 'Kadesh'

Usually translated as

Kadeshbarnea

Origin

from the same as H6946 and an otherwise unused word (apparently compounded of a correspondent to H1251 and a derivative of H5128) meaning desert of a fugitive; Kadesh of (the) Wilderness of Wandering

• Same as Qâdêsh (H6946)
• Same as Bar (H1251)
• Same as Nûwaʻ (H5128)

Occurrences

Qâdêsh Barnêaʻ occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (4)

• Numbers 32:8 — Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea (מִקָּדֵ֥שׁ) to see the land.
• Numbers 34:4 — And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea (לְקָדֵ֣שׁ), and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:
• Deuteronomy 1:2 — (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea (קָדֵ֥שׁ).)
• Deuteronomy 1:19 — And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea (קָדֵ֥שׁ).
• Deuteronomy 2:14 — And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea (מִקָּדֵ֣שׁ), until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
• Deuteronomy 9:23 — Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea (מִקָּדֵ֤שׁ), saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
• Joshua 10:41 — And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea (מִקָּדֵ֥שׁ) even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
• Joshua 14:6 — Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea (בְּקָדֵ֥שׁ).
• Joshua 14:7 — Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea (מִקָּדֵ֥שׁ) to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
• Joshua 15:3 — And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea (לְקָדֵ֣שׁ), and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: