Isaac
- Role
- patriarch
- Era
- 1950 BC–1850 BC
- Passages
- 123
- Named in
- Old Testament (13 books), New Testament (8 books)
Patriarchal dating.
Son of Abraham, second of the three patriarchs.
The name
- Ἰσαὰκ Isaak — Isaac
- יִצְחָ֑ק yitz.Chak — Isaac lexicon
- יִשְׂחָ֣ק yis.Chak — Isaac
More than one form is recorded — a renaming, or the Greek and Hebrew of the same person. They are listed under one entry rather than as separate people.
Family
Read as a pattern
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Read as prefiguring Jesus of Nazareth
The son carrying the wood for his own sacrifice is read as prefiguring the cross; Genesis itself does not draw the comparison, and the traditions differ in how much weight they place on it.
Gen 22:6
Places named alongside
- Egypt 4 verses
- Paddan-aram 4 verses
- Gerar 3 verses
- Beer-lahai-roi 2 verses
- Canaan 2 verses
- Mamre 2 verses
- Assyria 1 verse
- Beersheba 1 verse
- Esek 1 verse
- Hebron 1 verse
- Kiriath-arba 1 verse
- Machpelah 1 verse
Named in
- Genesis 17:19
- Genesis 17:21
- Genesis 21:3
- Genesis 21:4
- Genesis 21:5
- Genesis 21:8
- Genesis 21:10
- Genesis 21:12
- Genesis 22:2
- Genesis 22:3
- Genesis 22:6
- Genesis 22:7
- Genesis 22:9
- Genesis 24:4
- Genesis 24:14
- Genesis 24:62
- Genesis 24:63
- Genesis 24:64
- Genesis 24:66
- Genesis 24:67
- Genesis 25:5
- Genesis 25:6
- Genesis 25:9
- Genesis 25:11
- Genesis 25:19
- Genesis 25:20
- Genesis 25:21
- Genesis 25:26
- Genesis 25:28
- Genesis 26:1
- Genesis 26:6
- Genesis 26:8
- Genesis 26:9
- Genesis 26:12
- Genesis 26:16
- Genesis 26:17
- Genesis 26:18
- Genesis 26:19
- Genesis 26:20
- Genesis 26:25
- Genesis 26:27
- Genesis 26:31
- Genesis 26:32
- Genesis 26:35
- Genesis 27:1
- Genesis 27:5
- Genesis 27:20
- Genesis 27:21
- Genesis 27:22
- Genesis 27:26
- Genesis 27:30
- Genesis 27:32
- Genesis 27:33
- Genesis 27:37
- Genesis 27:39
- Genesis 27:46
- Genesis 28:1
- Genesis 28:5
- Genesis 28:6
- Genesis 28:8
Showing the first 60 of 123 passages, in canonical order.
Passages are linked from the tagged text; the summary and any positions above are written by hand and cited.