yitschak · Isaac

What it means

yitschak (יִצְחָק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Isaac”.

The son promised to Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob. His name means "he laughs" (Genesis 17:17, 19; 21:6).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×80
• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×7
• Joshua×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×1

• Genesis 17:19

  Elohim said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his offspring after him.

• Genesis 17:21

  But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this appointed time next year.”

• Genesis 21:3

  Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.

• Genesis 21:5

  Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

• Genesis 21:8

  The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

• Genesis 21:10

  And she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not inherit with my son, with Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:12

  But Elohim said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your eyes on account of the boy and on account of your slave woman. All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for through Isaac offspring will be named for you.

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Take, please, your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.”

• Genesis 22:3

  Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he rose and went to the place that Elohim had told him.

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them went together.

• Genesis 22:7

  Isaac said to Abraham his father, and he said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place that Elohim had told him, and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

• Genesis 24:4

  but to my land and to my kindred you will go and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

• Genesis 24:14

  Let it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels,’ she is the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loyal love to my lord.”

• Genesis 24:62

  Isaac had come back from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the land of the Negev.

• Genesis 24:63

  Isaac went out to meditate in the field as evening drew near; he lifted up his eyes and saw, and look, camels were coming.

• Genesis 24:64

  Rebekah lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac, and she got down from the camel.

• Genesis 24:66

  The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

• Genesis 24:67

  Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after the death of his mother.

• Genesis 25:5

  Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

• Genesis 25:6

  But to the sons of the concubines that were Abraham’s, Abraham gave gifts, and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he was still alive, eastward, to the land of the east.

• Genesis 25:9

  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is facing Mamre,

• Genesis 25:11

  After the death of Abraham, Elohim blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

• Genesis 25:19

  These are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac pleaded with YHWH on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and YHWH granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 25:26

  After that his brother came out, with his hand holding on to the heel of Esau, and he called his name Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac loved Esau, because game was to his taste, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 26:1

  There was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that there was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

• Genesis 26:6

  So Isaac lived in Gerar.

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through the window and saw, and look, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

• Genesis 26:9

  Abimelech called Isaac and said, “So she is your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said to myself, ‘I might die because of her.’”

• Genesis 26:12

  Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that year a hundredfold; and YHWH blessed him.

• Genesis 26:16

  Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you have become much mightier than we.”

• Genesis 26:17

  Isaac went away from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and lived there.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac again dug the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by names like the names by which his father had called them.

• Genesis 26:19

  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.

• Genesis 26:20

  The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had contended with him.

• Genesis 26:25

  He built there an altar and called on the name of YHWH, and pitched his tent there, and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

And 68 more times.