Kadesh; so called by way of abbreviation, which is frequent in Hebrew names, for Kadesh-barnea, Deu_1:19, which some rashly confound with Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, Num_20:1 27:14 33:36; into which they came not till the fortieth year after their coming out of Egypt, as appears from Num_33:37,38 whereas they were in this Kadesh in the second year, and before they received the sentence of their forty years’ abode in the wilderness.