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# אַכַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H390

**Accad** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Accad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/390/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַכַּד: n.pr.loc. Akkad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/390/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Akkad Gn 10:10 וַתְּהִי רֵאשִׁית מַמְלַכְתּוֹ בָּבֶל וְאֶרֶךְ וְא׳ וְכַלְנֶה בְּאֶרֶץ שִׁנְעָֽר׃; name of a city in Northern (?) Babylonia; = Bab. Akkadi, mostly name of land or district, but also of city, v. Hilpr Freibrief Neb. I, col. ii, l. 50; location uncertain; on possible identif. or confusion with Agade (Agate, Agane?), city of Sargon I, cf. DlPa 198 & K 19 f. COT Gn 10:10 Tiele Gesch. i.76 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Akkad (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.10/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֨י רֵאשִׁ֤ית מַמְלַכְתּוֹ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל וְאֶ֖רֶךְ וְאַכַּ֣ד וְכַלְנֵ֑ה בְּאֶ֖רֶץ שִׁנְעָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.beginning his.kingdom his Babel and Erech and Akkad and Calneh in the.land of.Shinar

*JPS 1917:* And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/390.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/390/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).