Lexical Definition

‎קֹדֶשׁ‎ qôdesh (ko'-desh) holiness ^H:N-M
from ‎קָדַשׁ‎

consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, ([idiom] most) holy ([idiom] day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.

• a sacred place or thing
• rarely abstract, sanctity

1) apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness
1a) apartness, sacredness, holiness
1a1) of God
1a2) of places
1a3) of things
1b) set-apartness, separateness

See Greek: ἁγιάζω · ἁγιασμός · ἅγιον · ἅγιος · ἁγιωσύνη · ἁγνίζω · δόξα · θεός · οἶκος

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Also see: עֵין מִשְׁפָּט | תַּחְתִּים חׇדְשִׁי

II. ‎קָדֵשׁ‎ proper name, of a location (sacred; but perhaps originally ‎קֶדֶשׁ‎ and pointing artificial to distinguish from ‎׳‎‎ק‎ in N); —

1. Καδης: in south of Judah Gen 16:14 (J), Gen 20:1 (E), in ‎מִדְבַּר פָּארָן‎ Num 13:26 (P), specifically ‎צִן‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Num 20:1; Num 33:36, compare ‎קָדֵשׁ‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Ps 29:8 on western border of Edom Num 20:16 (E), Num 33:37 (P), compare Num 20:14 (E), vNum 20:22 (P), Judg 11:16; Judg 11:17 (hence Rob^{BR ii. 175, 194 sought it at} `Ain Weibeh, in west of Arabah); long adobe of Israel during Exodus. Deut 1:46 ‎׳‎‎מֵי מְרִיבַת ק‎ Num 27:14 (compare Num 20:1-13), Deut 32:51 (P), Ezek 47:19 (read ‎מְרִיבַת‎), Ezek 48:28, compare Deut 33:2 (see ‎קֹדֶשׁ‎ near the end); compare ‎עֵין מִשְׁפָּט‎ Gen 14:7 = ‎בַּרְנֵעַ‎ ‎׳‎‎ק‎ (meaning of ‎׳‎‎ב‎ unknown; ᵐ5 Kings (τοῦ) βαρνη); — Num 32:8 (J), Deut 1:2; Deut 1:19; Deut 2:14; Deut 9:23; Josh 10:41 (D), Num 34:4; Josh 15:3 (P); — modern ±Ain †adîs (kudais, ), approximately 50 miles south of Beersheba, J.Rowlands (1842) see GWilliams^{Holy City, 464 f.}, and especially HCTrumbull (1881)^{Kadesh Barnea, 238-321}.

2. Hittite capital on the Orontes, north of Damascus, towards Hamath (Egyptian †dš, †dšu, †dše WMM^{As.u.Eur.213 ff.}); — 2Sam 24:6 ᵐ5^L We Dr Kit Bu Löhr, reading ‎אֶרֶץ הַחִתִּים קָדֵ֫שָׁה‎ for ᵑ0 ‎תַּחְתִּים חָדְשִׁי‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ (‎הַחִתִּים‎ already Hi^{Geschichte. Israel i. 29}; ‎קָדֵ֫שָׁה‎ Th, ‎קֶ֫דְשָׁה‎ Klo, of ‎קֶדֶשׁ‎ in Naphtali); HPS doubts.

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