Son of Abraham and Sarah (Gen 21: 1-7), child of the covenant promise by which Abraham's descendants would bring a blessing to all the earth's families (Gen 17: 15-22; 18: 1-15) but whom Yahweh commanded to be sacrificed to him (Gen 18: 1-18) Reprieved by an angel, Isaac marries Rebekah (Gen 24: 1-67), who bears him twin sons, Esau and Jacob (Gen 25: 19-26), the latter of whom tricks his dying father into bestowing the firstborn's birthright on him (Gen 27: 1-45) Paul interprets the near-sacrifice of Isaac as an allegory of Christ (Gal 4: 21-31)
The son of Abraham and Sarah who inherited the ancestral promises; he married Rebekah and was the father of Esau and Jacob See Chapter 2
A hedge-sparrow, a corruption of Chaucer's word, heisuagge (Anglo-Saxon, heag, hedge; sugga, the sugga bird )
in the Old Testament of the Bible, the son of Abraham and the father of Jacob and Esau. Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Alfasi Isaac ben Jacob Asimov Isaac Funk Isaac Kauffman Hull Isaac Isaac II Angelus Isaac of Stella Isaac Heinrich Israeli Isaac ben Solomon Isaac the Elder Luria Isaac ben Solomon Murphy Isaac Burns Newton Sir Isaac Peretz Isaac Leib Rabi Isidor Isaac Richards Isaac Vivian Alexander Sears Isaac Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Merritt Stern Isaac Watts Isaac Wise Isaac Mayer
isaac
Hyphenation
I·saac
Turkish pronunciation
ayzık
Pronunciation
/ˈīzək/ /ˈaɪzək/
Etymology
() From Hebrew יִצְחָק (Yitzchak or Yitzhak), meaning "laughed; laughter" (since his mother Sarah laughed when told she was pregnant at her old age).