עָקַד

aqad

a-KAD

to bind

Where it comes from

Used exactly once in the whole Hebrew Bible, here. Jewish tradition names the episode the Akedah, the Binding — not the sacrifice, because the knife never falls.

Genesis 22:9

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

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