Isaac

From Middle English Ysaac, from Latin Isaac, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs, he will laugh”). Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪzək/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪzæk/

Isaac (countable and uncountable, plural Isaacs)

2. (biblical) The son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob, from whom the Hebrew people trace their descent.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:4, column 1:

     And Abraham circumciſed his ſonne Iſaac, being eight dayes old, as God had commanded him.

3. A male given name from Hebrew.
4. A surname originating as a patronymic.
5. A local government area in central Queensland, Australia, named after the Isaac River; in full, Isaac Region.

• Isaacite
• Port Isaac (from Cornish)

• → Pohnpeian: Aisek

• ASAIC, acais, asaic, açais, açaís

• IPA^(key): /i.za.ak/

Isaac m

1. Isaac (Biblical figure)
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Isaac

• casai

• Isaacus

From Ancient Greek Ἰσαᾱ́κ (Isaā́k), from Biblical Hebrew יִצְחָק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.sa.aːk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.s̬a.ak]

Isaāc m sg (indeclinable)

1. (biblical) Isaac

• Hungarian: Izsák
• → Old Irish: Isaác
  • Irish: Íosác

• “Isaac”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from Latin Isaāc, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Biblical Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.sɑ.ɑːk/, [ˈi.zɑ.ɑːk]

Isaāc m

1. (Biblical character)
   • Old English Heptateuch, Genesis 22:2

     "Nim þīnne āncennedan sunu Īsaac, þe þū lufast, and far tō þām lande Visionis hraþe, and ġeoffra hine þǣr uppan ānre dūne."

     "Take your only-begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and quickly go to the land of Visionis, and sacrifice him there upon a mountain."

Isaac

1. Isaac

• IPA^(key): /isaˈak/ [i.saˈak]
  • Rhymes: -ak
• IPA^(key): /iˈsak/ [iˈsak]
  • Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: I‧sa‧ac

Isaac m

1. Isaac (Biblical figure)
   • 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Génesis 21:4:

     Y circuncidó Abraham á su hijo Isaac de ocho días, como Dios le había mandado.

     And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. (KJV)

2. a male given name, equivalent to English Isaac