Justus
(just).
•A surname of Joseph, called Barsabas. (Acts 1:23) (A.D. 30.)
•A Christian at Corinth, with whom St. Paul lodged. (Acts 18:7) (A.D. 49.) (Given in the Revised
Version as Titus Justus JUSTUS; and it is possible that he may be the same person as Titus the
companion of Paul.)
•A surname of Jesus, a friend of St. Paul. (Colossians 4:11) (A.D. 57.)
Juttah
(stretched out), a city in the mountain region of Judah, in the neighborhood of Maon and Carmel.
(Joshua 15:55) The place is now known as Yutta.
Kabzeel
(gathered by God), one of the “cities” of the tribe of Judah, (Joshua 15:21) the native place of
the great hero Benaiah ben-Jehoiada. (2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Chronicles 11:22) After the captivity it
was reinhabited by the Jews, and appears as Jekabzeel.
Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea
(Kadesh means holy ; it is the same word as the Arabic name of Jerusalem, el-Khuds. Barnea
means, desert of wandering.) This place, the scene of Miriam’s death, was the farthest point which
the Israelites reached in their direct road to Canaan; it was also that whence the spies were sent,
and where, on their return, the people broke out into murmuring, upon which their strictly penal
term of wandering began. (Numbers 13:3,26; 14:29-33; 20:1; 2:14) It is probable that the term
“Kadesh,” though applied to signify a “city,” yet had also a wider application to a region in which
Kadesh-meribah certainly, and Kadesh-barnea probably, indicates a precise spot. In (Genesis 14:7)
Kadesh is identified with En-mishpat, the “fountain of judgment.” It has been supposed, from
(Numbers 13:21,26) and Numb 20:1 ... that there were two places of the name of Kadesh, one in
the wilderness of Paran and the other in that of Zin; but it is more probable that only one place is
meant, and that Zin is but a part of the great desert of Paran. (There has been much doubt as to the
exact site of Kadesh; but Rev. H. Clay Trumbull of Philadelphia, visiting the spot in 1881, succeeded
in rendering almost certain that the site of Kadesh is Ain Kadis (spelled also Gadis and Quadis);
“the very same name, letter for letter in Arabic and Hebrew, with the scriptural fountain of
Kadesh—the ’holy fountain,’ as the name means— which gushed forth when Moses smote the
rock.” It lies 40 miles south of Beersheba and 165 northeast of Horeb, immediately below the
southern border of Palestine. It was discovered in 1842 by the Rev. J. Rowlands of Queen’s College,
Cambridge, England, whose discovery was endorsed by the great German geographer Ritter, by
E.S. Palmer in his “Desert of the Exodus,” and by the “Imperial Bible Dictionary.” Dr. Trumbull
thus describes it:—“It is an extensive oasis, a series of wells, the water of which flows out from
under such an overhanging cliff as is mentioned in the Bible story; and it opens into a vast plain or
wadi large enough to have furnished a camping-ground for the whole host of Israel. Extensive
primitive ruins are on the hills near it. The plain or wadi, also called Quadis, is shut in by surrounding
hills so as to make it a most desirable position for such a people as the Israelites on the borders of
hostile territory—such a position as leaders like Moses and Joshua would have been likely to select.”
“It was carpeted with grass and flowers. Fig treed laden with fruit were against its limestone hillsides.