Achad
Achad
(Heb. Achad’, , the constr. of , one, v. r. Achath’, , id.), thought by some to be the name of a heathen deity mentioned in the difficult phrase, Isa 66:17, , after one (of them) in the midst, Sept. , Vulg. post januam intrinsecus, Auth. Vers. behind one (tree) in the midst. According to Gesenius (Commentar, in loc.) the phraseology is susceptible of three interpretations: (a) One after another in the midst; (b) After Achad in the midst; (c) After one (of their number) [i.e. a priest leading the idolatrous rites] in the midst, a rendering which he prefers (comp. Rosenmller, Scholia in loc.). In favor of the allusion to a heathen deity is only the slender analogy with the name Adad, as a Syrian divinity. SEE HADAD. (See Mill, De Idolo , in his Dissert. Select. Lugd. Bat. 1743, p. 137-166; Doderlein, Philol. Abhandl. v. d. Gott Achad, in his Vere. Abhandl. Halle, 1755, pt. 3). SEE IDOLATRY.