HebrewH6947Noun

קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ

qa.desh bar.ne.a

10Occurrences
H6947Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Kadesh-barnea = "holy" a city in the extreme south of Judah same as 'Kedesh' and 'Kadesh' Another name of qa.desh (*קָדֵשׁ *"Kadesh" H6946G)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Deuteronomy
4
Joshua
4
Numbers
2

Key Passages

Deuteronomy 1:2BSB

It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Deuteronomy 2:14BSB

The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

Joshua 10:41BSB

Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

Joshua 14:7BSB

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

Numbers 32:8BSB

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

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