ISAAC

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• ISAAC (noun)
  The noun ISAAC has 1 sense:

1. (Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau

  Familiarity information: ISAAC used as a noun is very rare.

• ISAAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

Isaac syndrome usually occurs in people aged 15 to 60 years.

(Isaac syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Also called Isaac syndrome.

(Neuromyotonia, NCI Dictionary)

In the 17th century, Isaac Newton, through his observations on the splitting of light by a prism, sowed the seeds for a new field of science studying the interactions between light and matter – spectroscopy.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

Who, as he saw Sheridan and Fox eagerly arguing as to whether Caleb Baldwin, the Westminster costermonger, could hold his own with Isaac Bittoon, the Jew, would have guessed that the one was the deepest political philosopher in Europe, and that the other would be remembered as the author of the wittiest comedy and of the finest speech of his generation?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)