A district far south of Judah, lying between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akaba, in which Kadesh was situated, and in which a great part of the wanderings of the Israelites occurred. Numbers 13:21; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 27:14; Numbers 33:36; Numbers 34:3,4; Deuteronomy 32:51; Joshua 15:1,3 . It must not be confounded with the Wilderness of Sin (which lies along the south-east coast of the Red Sea).