# H6947 קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ

קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ (Qâdêsh Barnêaʻ), Strong’s H6947: Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert KJV: Kadeshbarnea.. Occurs 20 times.

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*Qâdêsh Barnêaʻ* — Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert

KJV: Kadeshbarnea.

Built from [קָדֵשׁ Qâdêsh](https://besorah.bible/word/H6946) (Kadesh, a place in the Desert) + [בַּר bar](https://besorah.bible/word/H1251) (a field) + [נוּעַ nûwaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H5128) (to waver) — means “Kadesh of (the) Wilderness of Wandering”

Occurs 20 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קָדֵשׁ n.pr.loc. (sacred)
- 1 in S. of Judah = ק׳ בַּרְנֵעַ
- 2 Hittite capital on the Orontes, N. of Damascus, towards Hamath

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 32:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=8) — Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
- [Numbers 34:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=4) — Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of…
- [Deuteronomy 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=2) — It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
- [Deuteronomy 1:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=19) — We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill…
- [Deuteronomy 2:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=14) — The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all…
- [Deuteronomy 9:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/9?v=23) — When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled…
- [Joshua 10:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=41) — Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
- [Joshua 14:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/14?v=6) — Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You…
- [Joshua 14:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/14?v=7) — I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him…
- [Joshua 15:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=3) — and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh…