Word Study · Strong's H3327 · Hebrew
יִצְחָק
Yitschaq
yits-khawk'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Yitschâq
“Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham
Rendered in the KJV as
Isaac. Compare H3446 (יִשְׂחָק).
- 108occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 10 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 28inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 108 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 28
- יִצְחָ֣ק12
- יִצְחָ֔ק11
- יִצְחָ֥ק9
- יִצְחָ֑ק8
- יִצְחָ֖ק8
- יִצְחָק֙7
- יִצְחָֽק׃7
- לְיִצְחָ֖ק7
- יִצְחָ֛ק6
- יִצְחָ֤ק5
- יִצְחָ֜ק4
- לְיִצְחָ֤ק3
and 16 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 6
- Isaac81
- to Isaac18
- and Isaac5
- for Isaac2
- and to Isaac1
- in Isaac1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- proper noun (a name)81
- preposition + proper noun (a name)21
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 81
- HR/Npm · 21
- HC/Npm · 5
- HC/R/Npm · 1
All 108, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Genesis80 of 108 · 74%
- Exodus9 of 108 · 8%
- Deuteronomy7 of 108 · 6%
- 1 Chronicles5 of 108 · 5%
- Joshua2 of 108 · 2%
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Genesis80 occurrences
- Genesis 17:19יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 17:21יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 21:3יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 21:4יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 21:5יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 21:8יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.here: Isaac
- Genesis 21:10יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”here: Isaac
- Genesis 21:12בְיִצְחָ֔קveyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.here: in Isaac
- Genesis 22:2יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 22:3יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.here: Isaac
- Genesis 22:6יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.here: Isaac
- Genesis 22:7יִצְחָ֜קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”here: Isaac
- Genesis 22:9יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.here: Isaac
- Genesis 24:4לְיִצְחָֽק׃leyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”here: for Isaac
- Genesis 24:14לְיִצְחָ֔קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”here: for Isaac
- Genesis 24:62וְיִצְחָק֙veyitzchakconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.here: and Isaac
- Genesis 24:63יִצְחָ֛קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.here: Isaac
- Genesis 24:64יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camelhere: Isaac
- Genesis 24:66לְיִצְחָ֑קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.here: to Isaac
- Genesis 24:67יִצְחָ֗קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.here: Isaac
- Genesis 24:67יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:5לְיִצְחָֽק׃leyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.here: to Isaac
- Genesis 25:6יִצְחָ֤קyitzchakproper noun (a name)But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:9יִצְחָ֤קyitzchakproper noun (a name)His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:11יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:11יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:19יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:19יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:20יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:21יִצְחָ֤קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.here: Isaac
- Genesis 25:26וְיִצְחָ֛קveyitzchakconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.here: and Isaac
- Genesis 25:28יִצְחָ֛קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:1יִצְחָ֛קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:6יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So Isaac settled in Gerar.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:8יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:9לְיִצְחָ֗קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”here: to Isaac
- Genesis 26:9יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:12יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:16יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:17יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:18יִצְחָ֜קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:19יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:20יִצְחָ֛קyitzchakproper noun (a name)But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:25יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:27יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:31יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:32יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 26:35לְיִצְחָ֖קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.here: to Isaac
- Genesis 27:1יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:5יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:20יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:21יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:22יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:26יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:30יִצְחָק֮yitzchakproper noun (a name)As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:30יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:32יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:33יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:37יִצְחָ֜קyitzchakproper noun (a name)But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:39יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.here: Isaac
- Genesis 27:46יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”here: Isaac
- Genesis 28:1יִצְחָ֛קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.here: Isaac
- Genesis 28:5יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.here: Isaac
- Genesis 28:6יִצְחָק֮yitzchakproper noun (a name)Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”here: Isaac
- Genesis 28:8יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,here: Isaac
- Genesis 28:13יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.here: Isaac
- Genesis 31:18יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.here: Isaac
- Genesis 31:42יִצְחָק֙yitzchakproper noun (a name)If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”here: Isaac
- Genesis 31:53יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.here: Isaac
- Genesis 32:9יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’here: Isaac
- Genesis 35:12וּלְיִצְחָ֖קuleyitzchakconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”here: and to Isaac
- Genesis 35:27יִצְחָ֣קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.here: Isaac
- Genesis 35:27וְיִצְחָֽק׃veyitzchakconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.here: and Isaac
- Genesis 35:28יִצְחָ֑קyitzchakproper noun (a name)And Isaac lived 180 years.here: Isaac
- Genesis 35:29יִצְחָ֤קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.here: Isaac
- Genesis 46:1יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.here: Isaac
- Genesis 48:15וְיִצְחָ֔קveyitzchakconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,here: and Isaac
- Genesis 48:16וְיִצְחָ֑קveyitzchakconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”here: and Isaac
- Genesis 49:31יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.here: Isaac
- Genesis 50:24לְיִצְחָ֖קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”here: to Isaac
Exodus9 occurrences
- Exodus 2:24יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.here: Isaac
- Exodus 3:6יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.here: Isaac
- Exodus 3:15יִצְחָ֛קyitzchakproper noun (a name)God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, 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 how I am to be remembered in every generation.here: Isaac
- Exodus 3:16יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.here: Isaac
- Exodus 4:5יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”here: Isaac
- Exodus 6:3יִצְחָ֥קyitzchakproper noun (a name)I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.here: Isaac
- Exodus 6:8לְיִצְחָ֖קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”here: to Isaac
- Exodus 32:13לְיִצְחָ֨קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”here: to Isaac
- Exodus 33:1לְיִצְחָ֤קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’here: to Isaac
Deuteronomy7 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 1:8לְיִצְחָ֤קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”here: to Isaac
- Deuteronomy 6:10לְיִצְחָ֥קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,here: to Isaac
- Deuteronomy 9:5לְיִצְחָ֖קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.here: to Isaac
- Deuteronomy 9:27לְיִצְחָ֖קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.here: to Isaac
- Deuteronomy 29:13לְיִצְחָ֖קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.here: to Isaac
- Deuteronomy 30:20לְיִצְחָ֥קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”here: to Isaac
- Deuteronomy 34:4לְיִצְחָ֤קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”here: to Isaac
Joshua2 occurrences
- Joshua 24:3יִצְחָֽק׃yitzchakproper noun (a name)But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,here: Isaac
- Joshua 24:4לְיִצְחָ֔קleyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.here: to Isaac
1 Chronicles5 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 1:28יִצְחָ֖קyitzchakproper noun (a name)The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.here: Isaac
- 1 Chronicles 1:34יִצְחָ֑ק סyitzchakproper noun (a name)Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.here: Isaac
- 1 Chronicles 1:34יִצְחָ֔קyitzchakproper noun (a name)Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.here: Isaac
- 1 Chronicles 16:16לְיִצְחָֽק׃leyitzchakpreposition + proper noun (a name)the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.here: to Isaac
- 1 Chronicles 29:18יִצְחָ֤קyitzchakproper noun (a name)O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.here: Isaac