KEDES, in Ancient Geography, a city of refuge and Levitical in the tribe of Naphtali, 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 Cidiffus; taken by the king of Assyria.—Another Keles in the tribe of Issachar (1 Chron. vi. 72.) which seems to be called Kishbon (Joshua xix.).