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# קֶדֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6943

**Kedesh** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Kedesh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6943/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫דֶשׁ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6943/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (sanctuary) Καδης: in Galilee Jos 20:7; 21:32 (P), 1 Ch 6:61; Naphtali Jos 19:37 (P), ק׳ נַפְתָּלִי Ju 4:6; = קֶדֶשׁ alone Jos 12:22 (D; with king); Ju 4:9, 10 + v 11 (where poss. different place on sea of Galilee, v. GFM Ju 117:119), also 2 K 15:29; TelAm. Ḳidši; Egyptian Ḳdšë WMMAs. u. Eur. 173, 217; mod. Kades, NW. of Lake Huleh; v. RobBR iii. 366 ff. SurveyWP i. 226 ff. BuhlGeogr. 235 f.. Κεδες: city of refuge in Issachar 1 Ch 6:57 = קִשְׁיוֹן Jos 21:28; poss. Tel Abu Kudies \[SurveyWP i. 69\], c. 2 miles SE. from Lejjun (Megiddo): cf. BuhlGeogr. 209. Καδης: in S. Judah; Jos 15:23 (P) (= ii. קָדֵשׁ 1? if so, then Mass distinction from קֶדֶשׁ in N. was here neglected).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kedesh (9); to (2); of Kedesh (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.23/#tree)

וְקֶ֥דֶשׁ וְחָצ֖וֹר וְיִתְנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan

*JPS 1917:* and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan;

[Joshua 12:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.22/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ קֶ֙דֶשׁ֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶֽלֶךְ־יָקְנֳעָ֥ם לַכַּרְמֶ֖ל אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Kedesh one the.king of.Jokneam of (the) Carmel one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6943.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6943/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).