Toponym Kadesh in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: holiness. Related names are: Israel, Zin, Moses . The translations of Kadesh in 23 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from Cades in Spanish to カデシュ in Japanese!
Wear it!And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. (GEN 14:7)
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. (GEN 16:14)
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. (GEN 20:1)
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. (NUM 13:26)
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. (NUM 20:1)
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: (NUM 20:14)
And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: (NUM 20:16)
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. (NUM 20:22)
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. (NUM 27:14)
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. (NUM 32:8)
And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. (NUM 33:36)
And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. (NUM 33:37)
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, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: (NUM 34:4)
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) (DEU 1:2)
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. (DEU 1:19)
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there. (DEU 1:46)
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, 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. (DEU 2:14)
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, 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. (DEU 9:23)
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. (DEU 32:51)
And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. (JOS 10:41)
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. (JOS 14:6)
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. (JOS 14:7)
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, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: (JOS 15:3)
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; (JDG 11:16)
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh. (JDG 11:17)
The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. (PSA 29:8)
And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. (EZE 47:19)
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. (EZE 48:28)