# akedah (עֲקֵדָה)

pronounced: a-ke-DAH


**The binding — the traditional name for Genesis 22, from the verb used when Abraham bound Isaac**

## In Scripture

> They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
> — Genesis 22:9 (The biblical verb that gives the Akedah its later traditional name)

> He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
> — Genesis 22:2 (The command that begins the binding narrative; Akedah is the later name for this scene, not a noun used in the verse.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/akedah/