קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ
kadesh-barnea · Kadesh-barnea
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6947 · appears 20 times in the Bible
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kadesh-barnea (קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Kadesh-barnea”.
A place in the wilderness south of Canaan, from which Moses sent the scouts.
How to say it
ka·desh bar·ne·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Kadesh-barnea ?
Today: possibly Ain Qudeirat, Sinai/Negev border
An oasis in the desert south of Canaan; its exact site is not certain.
Moses sent the twelve spies from there (Num 13:26). Because of their unbelief, Israel wandered in the wilderness almost forty years (Deut 2:14).
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 32:8
Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
- Numbers 34:4
And the border shall turn for you south of the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin, and it shall end south of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go out to Hazar-addar and pass on to Azmon.
- Deuteronomy 1:2
It is eleven days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 1:19
We set out from Horeb and went through all that great and fearsome wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorite, as YHWH our Elohim had commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 2:14
The days that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered were thirty-eight years, until the whole generation, the men of war, had come to an end from the midst of the camp, as YHWH had sworn to them.
- Deuteronomy 9:23
And when YHWH sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,” you rebelled against the command of YHWH your Elohim; you did not believe him or listen to his voice.
- Joshua 10:41
And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.
- Joshua 14:6
Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word that YHWH spoke to Moses the man of Elohim about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.
- Joshua 14:7
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of YHWH sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him word as it was in my heart.
- Joshua 15:3
and it went out south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned to Karka;
And 10 more times.