KEDES, (anc. geog.), a city of refuge and Levitical in the tribe of Naphthali, on the confines of Tyre and Galilee; (Josephus). Jerome calls it a sacerdotal city, situated on a mountain 20 miles from Tyre, near Paneas, and called Gidissus, taken by the king of Assyria.—Another Kedes in the tribe of Issachar, (1 Chron. vii. 72.) which seems to be called Kifon, (Joshua xix.).