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 Cidippus; taken by the king of Assyria.—Another Kedes in the tribe of Issachar (1 Chron. vii. 72.) which seems to be called Kibion (Joshua xix.).