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ACCAD

(Heb. !akkaḏ; Akk. a-ga-dé)
(also AKKAD)

A city in northern Babylonia listed with Babel and Erech as a part of Nimrod’s kingdom in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:10); also called Agade, Akkad. Accad was founded as the capital city of the empire established by Sargon I (ca. 2330-2274 b.c.). The Akkadian Empire included all Mesopotamia, parts of Anatolia, and northern Syria, as far as the Mediterranean coast. With the shift of the political center of Mesopotamia from Sumer to Accad, the Semitic Akkadian language, culture, and military art superseded that of the Sumerians. Sargon’s grandson Naram-sin destroyed the great palace of Ebla ca. 2250. Accad was destroyed by the Gutians ca. 2150 and never rebuilt.

The location of the city remains uncertain. Some locate it near Babylon and others near Sippor, possibly Tell Der or Tell Sesubar. Even after the destruction of the city, the name Akkad designated the northern region of Babylonia, and “Akkad and Sumer” was used as late as the Persian period to refer to all of Babylonia.

Bradford Scott Hummel

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ACCAD

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)