Qadesh, Qedesh, Qetesh, Kadesh, Kedesh, Kadeš and Qades come from the common Semitic root "

Q-D-Š ''Q-D-Š'' is a triconsonantal Semitic root meaning " sacred, holy", derived from a concept central to ancient Semitic religion. From a basic verbal meaning "to consecrate, to purify", it could be used as an adjective meaning "holy", or as a s ...

", which means "sacred." Kadesh and variations may refer to:

Ancient/biblical places

Kadesh (Syria) Kadesh, or Qadesh, was an ancient city of the Levant on or near the headwaters or a ford of the Orontes River. It was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age and is mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was the site of the Battle of Kadesh b ...

or Qadesh, an ancient city of the Levant, on or near the headwaters or a ford of the Orontes River **

Tell al-Nabi Mando Tell al-Nabi Mando ( ar, تل النبي مندو), known in archaeological literature as Tell Nebi Mend and also known as Qadesh ( ar, قادش) after the Bronze-Age city which stood at almost the same location, is a village in central Syria, adm ...

, also called Qadesh and adjacent to the ancient site **

Battle of Qadesh The Battle of Kadesh or Battle of Qadesh took place between the forces of the New Kingdom of Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River, just upstream of Lake Homs near the mo ...

, a battle between the forces of the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II *

Kadesh (biblical) Kadesh or Qadesh or Cades (in classical Hebrew he, קָדֵשׁ, from the root "holy") is a place-name that occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible, describing a site or sites located south of, or at the southern border of, Canaan and the Kin ...

or Qadesh, biblical site or sites, one of which is sometimes named as Kadesh Barnea *

Kedesh Kedesh (alternate spellings: Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned few times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, 3 km northeast of the modern Kibbutz M ...

, also Kedesh Naphthali, an ancient city in Upper Galilee, Israel (see also

Qadas Qadas (also Cadasa; ar, قدس) was a Palestinian village located 17 kilometers northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. One of seven Shia Muslim villages, called ''Metawalis'', that fell within the boundaries of ...

)

Modern places

* Kadesh Barnea, also known as Nitzanei Sinai, a modern community settlement in the Negev desert of Israel *

, a Palestinian Arab Shiite village northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war (see also

) * Kidosht or Kadāsh, a village in Momenabad Rural District, in the Central District of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, Iran * Qades, a village in Badghis Province in north western Afghanistan

Other uses

Qetesh Qetesh (also Qadesh, Qedesh, Qetesh, Kadesh, Kedesh, Kadeš or Qades ) was a goddess who was incorporated into the ancient Egyptian religion in the late Bronze Age. Her name was likely developed by the Egyptians based on the Semitic root ''Q-D ...

, a Canaanite and Egyptian fertility goddess * Qetesh (''Stargate''), a character in the ''Stargate'' fictional universe * ''

Kadosh Kadosh ( he, קדוש) (''lit.'', Sacred) is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Plot ''Kadosh'' is a bleak drama about the Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir (Yoram Hattab), a ...

'', a 1999 film by Amos Gitai * Qadesh, the male equivalent of Qedesha, a sacred or temple prostitute * Qadesh, a military unit in the Syrian Civil War that fights under the command of the

Republican Guard A republican guard, sometimes called a national guard, is a state organization of a country (often a republic, hence the name ''Republican'') which typically serves to protect the head of state and the government, and thus is often synonymous wit ...

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