Kadesh

Qadesh, Qedesh, Qetesh, Kadesh, Kedesh, Kadeš and Qades come from the common Semitic root "Q-D-Š", which means "sacred."

Qadesh and variations may refer to:

Places

Kadesh or Qadesh, an ancient city of the Levant, on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes River
- Tell al-Nabi Mando, also called Qadesh and adjacent to the ancient site
- Battle of Qadesh, a battle between the forces of the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II
Kedesh, also Kadesh Naphthali, an ancient city in Upper Galilee, Israel (see also Qadas)
Kadesh (Israel), biblical Kadesh Barnea, identified at a site on the Sinai Peninsula
Qades, a village in Badghis Province in north western Afghanistan
Qadas, a Palestinian Arab Shiite village northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war (see also Kedesh)
Kidosht or Kadāsh, a village in Momenabad Rural District, in the Central District of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, Iran

Qetesh, a Canaanite and Egyptian fertility goddess
Kadosh, a 1999 film by Amos Gitai
Qadesh, the male equivalent of Qedesha, a temple or sacred prostitute
Qadesh, a military unit in the Syrian Civil War that fights under the command of the Republican Guard.