יִצְחָק
Isaac
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Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3327 appears — 101 distinct verses across 10 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 74 verses
- Genesis 17:19 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
- Genesis 17:21 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
- Genesis 21:3 יִצְחָֽק n Proper Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
- Genesis 21:4 יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- Genesis 21:5 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
- Genesis 21:8 יִצְחָֽק n Proper The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
- Genesis 21:10 יִצְחָֽק n Proper Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Isaac."
- Genesis 21:12 בְ/יִצְחָ֔ק prep + n Proper God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
- Genesis 22:2 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
- Genesis 22:3 יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:6 יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
- Genesis 22:7 יִצְחָ֜ק n Proper Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
- Genesis 22:9 יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
- Genesis 24:4 לְ/יִצְחָֽק prep + n Proper But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
- Genesis 24:14 לְ/יִצְחָ֔ק prep + n Proper Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink.' She will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' Let the same be she who you have appointed for your servant Isaac. Thereby will I know that you have shown kindness to my master."
- Genesis 24:62 וְ/יִצְחָק֙ conj + n Proper Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi. For he lived in the land of the South.
- Genesis 24:63 יִצְחָ֛ק n Proper Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
- Genesis 24:64 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
- Genesis 24:66 לְ/יִצְחָ֑ק prep + n Proper The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
- Genesis 24:67 יִצְחָ֗ק יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper n Proper Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
- Genesis 25:5 לְ/יִצְחָֽק prep + n Proper Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
- Genesis 25:6 יִצְחָ֤ק n Proper but to the sons of the concubines who Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
- Genesis 25:9 יִצְחָ֤ק n Proper Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
- Genesis 25:11 יִצְחָ֣ק יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper n Proper It happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
- Genesis 25:19 יִצְחָ֖ק יִצְחָֽק n Proper n Proper This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
- Genesis 25:20 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Genesis 25:21 יִצְחָ֤ק n Proper Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Genesis 25:26 וְ/יִצְחָ֛ק conj + n Proper After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 25:28 יִצְחָ֛ק n Proper Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 26:1 יִצְחָ֛ק n Proper There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Genesis 26:6 יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper Isaac lived in Gerar.
- Genesis 26:8 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
- Genesis 26:9 לְ/יִצְחָ֗ק יִצְחָ֔ק prep + n Proper n Proper Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 26:12 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Genesis 26:16 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
- Genesis 26:17 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
- Genesis 26:18 יִצְחָ֜ק n Proper Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 26:19 יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Genesis 26:20 יִצְחָ֛ק n Proper The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
- Genesis 26:25 יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
- Genesis 26:27 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
- Genesis 26:31 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- Genesis 26:32 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
- Genesis 26:35 לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק prep + n Proper They grieved Isaac and Rebekah's spirits.
- Genesis 27:1 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
- Genesis 27:5 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
- Genesis 27:20 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."
- Genesis 27:21 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 27:22 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
- Genesis 27:26 יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."
- Genesis 27:30 יִצְחָק֮ יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper n Proper It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 27:32 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
- Genesis 27:33 יִצְחָ֣ק n Proper Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Genesis 27:37 יִצְחָ֜ק n Proper Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:39 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
- Genesis 27:46 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
- Genesis 28:1 יִצְחָ֛ק n Proper Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Genesis 28:5 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
- Genesis 28:6 יִצְחָק֮ n Proper Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 28:8 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.
- Genesis 28:13 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
- Genesis 31:18 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 31:42 יִצְחָק֙ n Proper Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
- Genesis 31:53 יִצְחָֽק n Proper The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
- Genesis 32:9 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'
- Genesis 35:12 וּ/לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק conj + prep + n Proper The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
- Genesis 35:27 יִצְחָ֣ק וְ/יִצְחָֽק n Proper conj + n Proper Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
- Genesis 35:28 יִצְחָ֑ק n Proper The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
- Genesis 35:29 יִצְחָ֤ק n Proper Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- Genesis 46:1 יִצְחָֽק n Proper Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
- Genesis 48:15 וְ/יִצְחָ֔ק conj + n Proper He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
- Genesis 48:16 וְ/יִצְחָ֑ק conj + n Proper the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
- Genesis 49:31 יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
- Genesis 50:24 לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק prep + n Proper Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Exodus 9 verses
- Exodus 2:24 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Exodus 3:6 יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
- Exodus 3:15 יִצְחָ֛ק n Proper God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Exodus 3:16 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;
- Exodus 4:5 יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
- Exodus 6:3 יִצְחָ֥ק n Proper and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
- Exodus 6:8 לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק prep + n Proper I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"
- Exodus 32:13 לְ/יִצְחָ֨ק prep + n Proper Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Exodus 33:1 לְ/יִצְחָ֤ק prep + n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
Deuteronomy 7 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:8 לְ/יִצְחָ֤ק prep + n Proper Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
- Deuteronomy 6:10 לְ/יִצְחָ֥ק prep + n Proper It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
- Deuteronomy 9:5 לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק prep + n Proper Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:27 לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק prep + n Proper Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
- Deuteronomy 29:13 לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק prep + n Proper that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 לְ/יִצְחָ֥ק prep + n Proper to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
- Deuteronomy 34:4 לְ/יִצְחָ֤ק prep + n Proper Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 24:3 יִצְחָֽק n Proper I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
- Joshua 24:4 לְ/יִצְחָ֔ק prep + n Proper I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it: and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:28 יִצְחָ֖ק n Proper The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
- 1 Chronicles 1:34 יִצְחָ֑ק יִצְחָ֔ק n Proper n Proper Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 16:16 לְ/יִצְחָֽק prep + n Proper [The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
- 1 Chronicles 29:18 יִצְחָ֤ק n Proper Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you;
2 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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“Isaac” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יצחק (Yitschâq). It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 73% of its uses. It turns up in 101 verses across 10 books, a common footprint. First canonically at Genesis 17:19, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3327 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 101
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 101 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #401
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 401 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 101 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 74 verses 73%
- Exodus 9 verses 9%
- Deuteronomy 7 verses 7%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 101 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 92 verses · 91%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 5%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Isaac 100×, Isaac's 4×
- American Standard Version†: Isaac 98×, Him 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Isaac 96×, Isaac’s 3×, Now isaac 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Isaac 106×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3327 across 108† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3327 across 108† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3327 across 106† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3327 across 108† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Isaac = "he laughs"
- son of Abraham by Sarah his wife and father of Jacob and Esau
Word origin
n.pr.m. Ισαακ: Isaac, son of Abr. and Sarah (he laugheth, cf. play upon name Gn 18:12 f. (J), 21:6 (E), 17:17, 19 (P); 26:8 (J));—יִצְּחָק Gn 21:3, 4, 5 (E) +, 24:62, 63, 67 (J) +, 17:19, 21 (P) +, (80 times Gn, 9 times Ex, 7 times Dt), Lv 26:42; Nu 32:11; Jos 24:3, 4; 1 K 18:36; 2 Ch 13:23; 1 Ch 1:28, 34(×2); 16:16; 29:18; 2 Ch 30:6; †יִשְׂחָק Je 33:26 ψ 105:9, and (= Israel) בָּמוֹת יִשְׂחָק Am 7:9, בֵּית יִשְׂחָק v 16.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צחק (tsâchaq) (H6711) — to laugh.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יִצְחָק
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Isaac,
- 1. son of Abraham. Ber. 26ᵇ; Num. R. s. 2 י׳ קבע וכ׳ I. introduced the afternoon prayer (Minḥah). Gen. R. s. 19; a. v. fr.—R. Hash. 16ᵃ, a. fr. עקידת י׳ the intended offering up of Isaac.—אפרו של י׳, v. אֵפֶר.
- 2. R. I., a. Tannai. Succ. 25ᵇ; Sifré Num. 68. Macc. 13ᵇ; a. fr. (v. Fr. Darkhé Mish. p. 203).—3) name of many Amoraim, esp. a) R. I. Roba or Rabbah (the Elder). Y. Maas. Sh. V, beg. 55ᵈ. Y. Ber. V, 9ᵇ bot. Bab. Ber. 33ᵇ ר׳ י׳ בר אבדימי; a. fr.—b) mate of R. Imi. Y. Kil. III, beg. 28ᶜ; a. fr.—Taan. 5ᵇ; Meg. 15ᵃ; a. fr.—c) R. I. of Magdala. B. Mets. 25ᵃ. Sabb. 139ᵃ. Yoma 81ᵇ.—4) I. Saḥora (the merchant). Y. Ber. IV, 7ᶜ bot.; Y. Taan.; IV, 67ᶜ bot.—V. Fr. M’bo, p. 105ᵇ sq.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 27 distinct written forms H3327 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יִצְחָ֣ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 21:4 | 12 |
| יִצְחָ֔ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 22:2 | 11 |
| יִצְחָ֑ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 17:19 | 9 |
| יִצְחָ֥ק | Noun, Proper | Exodus 2:24 | 9 |
| יִצְחָ֖ק | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:6 | 8 |
| יִצְחָֽק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 21:3 | 7 |
| יִצְחָק֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:20 | 7 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:5 | 7 |
| יִצְחָ֛ק | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:15 | 6 |
| יִצְחָ֤ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:6 | 5 |
| יִצְחָ֜ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 22:7 | 4 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֤ק | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:8 | 3 |
| לְ/יִצְחָֽק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 24:4 | 3 |
| יִצְחָק֮ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 27:30 | 2 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֔ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 24:14 | 2 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֥ק | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 6:10 | 2 |
| בְ/יִצְחָ֔ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 21:12 | 1 |
| וְ/יִצְחָ֑ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 48:16 | 1 |
| וְ/יִצְחָ֔ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 48:15 | 1 |
| וְ/יִצְחָ֛ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:26 | 1 |
| וְ/יִצְחָֽק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 35:27 | 1 |
| וְ/יִצְחָק֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 24:62 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 35:12 | 1 |
| יִצְחָ֗ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 24:67 | 1 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֑ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 24:66 | 1 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֗ק | Noun, Proper | Genesis 26:9 | 1 |
| לְ/יִצְחָ֨ק | Noun, Proper | Exodus 32:13 | 1 |
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Isaac). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Laughter. (1) Israel, or the kingdom of the ten tribes (Amos 7:9, 16).
(2.) The only son of Abraham by Sarah. He was the longest lived of the three patriarchs (Gen. 21:1-3). He was circumcised when eight days old (4-7); and when he was probably two years old a great feast was held in connection with his being weaned.
The next memorable event in his life is that connected with the command of God given to Abraham to offer him up as a sacrifice on a mountain in the land of Moriah (Gen. 22). (See ABRAHAM.) When he was forty years of age Rebekah was chosen for his wife (Gen. 24). After the death and burial of his father he took up his residence at Beer-lahai-roi (25:7-11), where his two sons, Esau and Jacob, were born (21-26), the former of whom seems to have been his favourite son (27, 28).
In consequence of a famine (Gen. 26:1) Isaac went to Gerar, where he practised deception as to his relation to Rebekah, imitating the conduct of his father in Egypt (12:12-20) and in Gerar (20:2). The Philistine king rebuked him for his prevarication.
After sojourning for some time in the land of the Philistines, he returned to Beersheba, where God gave him fresh assurance of covenant blessing, and where Abimelech entered into a covenant of peace with him.
The next chief event in his life was the blessing of his sons (Gen. 27:1). He died at Mamre, "being old and full of days" (35:27-29), one hundred and eighty years old, and was buried in the cave of Machpelah.
In the New Testament reference is made to his having been "offered up" by his father (Heb. 11:17; James 2:21), and to his blessing his sons (Heb. 11:20). As the child of promise, he is contrasted with Ishmael (Rom. 9:7, 10; Gal. 4:28; Heb. 11:18).
Isaac is "at once a counterpart of his father in simple devoutness and purity of life, and a contrast in his passive weakness of character, which in part, at least, may have sprung from his relations to his mother and wife. After the expulsion of Ishmael and Hagar, Isaac had no competitor, and grew up in the shade of Sarah's tent, moulded into feminine softness by habitual submission to her strong, loving will." His life was so quiet and uneventful that it was spent "within the circle of a few miles; so guileless that he let Jacob overreach him rather than disbelieve his assurance; so tender that his mother's death was the poignant sorrow of years; so patient and gentle that peace with his neighbours was dearer than even such a coveted possession as a well of living water dug by his own men; so grandly obedient that he put his life at his father's disposal; so firm in his reliance on God that his greatest concern through life was to honour the divine promise given to his race.", Geikie's Hours, etc.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(laughter), the son whom Sara bore to Abraham, in the hundredth year of his age, at Gerar. (B.C. 1897.) In his infancy he became the object of Ishmael's jealousy; and in his youth the victim, in intention, of Abraham's great sacrificial act of faith. When forty years old he married Rebekah his cousin, by whom, when he was sixty, he had two sons, Esau and Jacob. Driven by famine to Gerar, he acquired great wealth by his flocks but was repeatedly dispossessed by the Philistines of the wells which he sunk at convenient stations. After the deceit by which Jacob acquired his father's blessing Isaac sent his son to seek a wife in Padan-aram; and all that we know of him during the last forty-three years of his life in that he saw that God, with a large and prosperous family, return to him at Hebron. (Genesis 36:27) before he died there, at the age of 180 years. He was buried by his two sons in the cave of Machpelah. In the New Testament reference is made to the offering of Isaac (Hebrews 11:17; James 2:21) and to his blessing his sons. (Hebrews 11:20) In (Galatians 4:28-31) he is contrasted with Ishmael. In reference to the offering up of Isaac by Abraham, the primary doctrine taught are those of sacrifice and substitution, as the means appointed by God for taking away sin; and, as co-ordinate with these, the need of the obedience of faith, on the part of man, to receive the benefit. (Hebrews 11:17) The animal which God provided and Abraham offered was in the whole history of sacrifice the recognized type of "the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world." Isaac is the type of humanity itself, devoted to death for sin.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 101 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 101 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 17:19
- Exodus 2:24
- Leviticus 26:42
- Numbers 32:11
- Deuteronomy 1:8
- Joshua 24:3
- 1 Kings 18:36
- 2 Kings 13:23
- 1 Chronicles 1:28
- 2 Chronicles 30:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
