Kadesh Barnea

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Kadesh Barnea: NET NIV
Kadesh-Barnea: NET AVS TEV
Kadesh-barnea: NRSV NASB

holiness of an inconstant son

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an oasis 100 km south of Gaza & 120 km NNW of Ezion-Geber, where Israel made an encampment

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Strongs #06947: enrb vdq Qadesh Barnea`

Kadesh-barnea = "holy"

1) a city in the extreme south of Judah
1a) same as 'Kedesh' and 'Kadesh'

6947 Qadesh Barnea` kaw-dashe' bar-nay'-ah

from the same as 6946 and an otherwise unused word (apparently compounded of a correspondent to 1251 and a derivative of 5128) meaning desert of a fugitive; Kadesh of (the) Wilderness of Wandering; Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert: KJV -- Kadesh-barnea.
see HEBREW for 06946
see HEBREW for 01251
see HEBREW for 05128

KADESH-BARNEA [isbe]

KADESH-BARNEA - ka'-desh-bar'-ne-a (qadhesh barnea`; Kades): Mentioned 10 times; called also "Kadesh" simply. The name perhaps means "the holy place of the desert of wandering." There are references to Kadesh in early history. At En-mishpat ("the same is Kadesh") Chedorlaomer and his allies smote the Amalekite and Amorite. Abraham dwelt near Kadesh, and it was at Beer-lahai-roi between Kadesh and Bered that the Angel of Yahweh appeared to Hagar (Gen 14:7; 16:14; 20:1). It was an important camp of the Israelites during their wanderings, and seems to have been their headquarters for 38 years (Dt 1:2; 2:14; Judith 5:14). There the returning spies found the camp (Nu 13:26); there Miriam died and was buried (Nu 20:1); from thence messengers were sent to the king of Edom (Nu 20:14; Jdg 11:16 ff). There the people rebelled because of the want of water, and Moses brought water from the rock (Nu 20:2 ff); it was called therefore Meribath--or Meriboth-Kadesh (Nu 27:14; Ezek 47:19; 48:28). It was situated in the wilderness of Zin (Nu 20:1; 33:36,37) in the hill country of the Amorites (Dt 1:19), 11 days' journey from Horeb, by the way of Mt. Seir (Dt 1:2), "in the uttermost" of the border of Edom (Nu 20:16), and on the southern border, probably the Southeast corner, of Judah (Ezek 47:19; compare Judith 19). See Cobern, Homiletic Review, April and May, 1914.

S. F. Hunter

KADESH-BARNEA [bridgeway]

The town of Kadesh-barnea (or Kadesh) was the main settlement in the far south of Palestine. It was an oasis town between the Wilderness of Zin to the north, the Wilderness of Paran to the south, the Wilderness of Shur to the west, and the Arabah to the east (Gen 16:7,14; 20:1; Num 13:26; 20:1; see PALESTINE).

Kadesh appears to have been the Israelites’ main base during their forty years in the wilderness. It was the place where the twelve spies reported to the people after their fact-finding mission to Canaan, and where Moses planned the final journey to Canaan about forty years later (Num 13:25-26; 14:32-34; 20:14-21). Little is known of events at Kadesh during the intervening years. Two recorded incidents were Miriam’s death and Moses’ striking of the rock in search of water (Num 20:1-14; 27:14).

Moses intended that after the conquest of Canaan, Israel’s southern border would run from the Dead Sea through Kadesh-barnea to the Brook of Egypt, which it would follow to the Mediterranean Sea (Num 34:1-5). Though Israel’s conquest reached Kadesh, the town that later generations usually recognized as marking Israel’s southern border was Beersheba, almost fifty kilometres to the north. The wilderness of Zin lay between the two towns (Josh 10:40-41; 15:1-3; 2 Sam 17:11; 24:2).