Where was Kadesh-barnea?

Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin”. Modern identification: Ain el Qudeirat.

Kadesh-barnea is represented in the local geography layer as Ain el Qudeirat. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 14:7 and is mentioned across 5 books, with 24 verse references collected into the glossary index.