HebrewH6943Noun

קֶ֫דֶשׁ

qe.desh

10Occurrences
H6943Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Kedesh, the name of four places in Palestine

from H6942 (קָדַשׁ); a sanctum;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Kedesh = "holy place" a fortified Canaanite city allotted to Naphtali

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

קֶ֫דֶשׁ appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
5
Judges
4
2 Kings
1

Key Passages

2 Kings 15:29BSB

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

Judges 4:9BSB

“I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,

Judges 4:11BSB

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

Joshua 15:23BSB

Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

Joshua 20:7BSB

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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