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title: אַכַּד — Accad · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַכַּד (390), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Accad. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Akkad. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַכַּד

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«אַכַּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Accad** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 390 · **BDB:** אַכַּד

### Glosses

Akkad (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַכַּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/390/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.10/)

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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.

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