Atlas Biblica

    person

    Isaac

    יִצְחָקἸσαάκ

    Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of Jacob and Esau. God made a covenant with him, renewing the promises given to Abraham.

    IllustrationGenesis 22The sacrifice of Isaac is interrupted when Abraham sees a ram caught in the thicket and offers it instead.
    verses
    123
    first named
    Genesis 17:19
    last named
    James 2:21
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Isaac?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Isaac was the long-promised son born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, as recorded in Genesis. He was the child of the covenant, through whom God had promised to fulfill his purposes for Abraham's descendants (Gen.17.19,21). Isaac was circumcised on the eighth day (Gen.21.4) and grew up as Abraham's heir.

    When he was a youth, God tested Abraham by commanding him to offer Isaac as a sacrifice (Gen.22). Abraham obeyed, but at the last moment God provided a ram as a substitute. This event foreshadowed God's provision of his own Son as the ultimate sacrifice.

    Isaac married Rebekah, and they had twin sons, Esau and Israel (or 'Jacob') (Gen.25.21-26). Isaac favored Esau, while Rebekah favored Jacob, leading to family conflict. Jacob deceived Isaac into giving him the firstborn blessing (Gen.27).

    Isaac settled in Gerar, where God confirmed to him the covenant promises (Gen.26.1-5). Like his father, he passed off his wife as his sister out of fear (Gen.26.7-11). He reopened Abraham's wells and dug new ones, showing his claim to the land.

    Isaac died at the age of 180 and was buried by his sons (Gen.35.29). God is identified as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, linking Isaac to the patriarchal promises (Exo.3.6). The New Testament upholds Isaac as an example of faith (Heb.11.20) and miraculous birth (Gal.4.28-29).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Isaac 10 of 20 entities the graph connects to Isaac, in 3 groups: kinship 5, ground 1, events 4. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.IsraelFather of · 39 events · 2,578 versesAbrahamChild of · 46 events · 275 versesEsauFather of · 17 events · 84 versesSarahChild of · 3 events · 48 versesRebekahPartner of · 14 events · 30 versesKinshipNegebLocated in · 39 versesGroundLORD11 events · 1,004 versesCanaan3 events · 146 versesFaith2 events · 146 versesBeersheba3 events · 33 versesEventsIsaac

    The 10 best-attested of 20 are drawn. All 20 are listed below.

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    Stands in the same events as

    and 31 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Isaac happens All 8 places the claims about Isaac reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Gerar, Beersheba, Mamre, Paddan, Canaan, Beer-lahai-roi, Negeb, Machpelah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Isaac there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.GerarPaddanBeer-lahai-roiNegeb
    the PatriarchsAll 8 places the claims about Isaac reach

    The pattern

    Where Isaac is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 123 verses across 21 of 66 books; 45 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS–JOSHUA94 VERSES1 KINGS–2 CHRONICLES7 VERSESMATTHEW–LUKE7 VERSESBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 123 verses across 21 of 66 books; 45 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS–JOSHUA94 VERSES1 KINGS–2 CHRONICLES7 VERSESMATTHEW–LUKE7 VERSESBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Isaac is named in 123 verses, and the name is written 132 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 45 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 123, across 21 books. The name is written 132 times in them.

    1. Genesis74 verses

      17:1917:2121:321:421:521:821:1021:1222:222:322:622:722:924:424:1424:6224:6324:6424:6624:6725:525:625:925:1125:1925:2025:2125:2625:2826:126:626:826:926:1226:1626:1726:1826:1926:2026:2526:2726:3126:3226:3527:127:527:2027:2127:2227:2627:3027:3227:3327:3727:3927:4628:128:528:628:828:1331:1831:4231:5332:935:1235:2735:2835:2946:148:1548:1649:3150:24

    2. Exodus9 verses

      2:243:63:153:164:56:36:832:1333:1

    3. Leviticus1 verse

      26:42

    4. Numbers1 verse

      32:11

    5. Deuteronomy7 verses

      1:86:109:59:2729:1330:2034:4

    6. Joshua2 verses

      24:324:4

    7. 1 Kings1 verse

      18:36

    8. 2 Kings1 verse

      13:23

    9. 1 Chronicles4 verses

      1:281:3416:1629:18

    10. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      30:6

    11. Psalms1 verse

      105:9

    12. Jeremiah1 verse

      33:26

    13. Amos2 verses

      7:97:16

    14. Matthew3 verses

      1:28:1122:32

    15. Mark1 verse

      12:26

    16. Luke3 verses

      3:3413:2820:37

    17. Acts3 verses

      3:137:87:32

    18. Romans2 verses

      9:79:10

    19. Galatians1 verse

      4:28

    20. Hebrews4 verses

      11:911:1711:1811:20

    21. James1 verse

      2:21

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Abraham and Ishbak, and 5 moreKeturahAbraham's concubine after Sarah's deathvia NegebRamahA town in Benjamin, near Gibeah and Jerusalemvia Israel and RebekahLabanBrother of Rebekah; father of Leah and Rachelvia Abraham and SarahHaranSon of Terah, brother of Abraham and father of Lot.via Abraham and SarahNahorSon of Terah, Abraham's brother; father of Bethuel.via Abraham and SarahTerahAbraham's father who settled in Haranvia Esau and IshmaelMahalathEsau's wife, daughter of Ishmaelvia Abraham and IshmaelHagarSarah's Egyptian maidservant; mother of Ishmael.via RebekahBethuelFather of Rebekah, Isaac's wife
    ElsewhereGenealogy of IsaacEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    15 more chapters, from Genesis 31 to James 2

    Sources

    What this rests on