עָקַד ʻâqad — to tie with thongs
Translated in the KJV as bind.
a primitive root; to tie with thongs.
ʻâqad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַֽיַּעֲקֹד֙ Gen 22:9 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›