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Accad
People's Dictionary of the Bible
Accad (ăk'kad), fortress, one of the four cities in the kingdom of Nimrod. Genesis 10:10. It was in the land of Shinar, and George Smith locates it at Agadi, on the Euphrates, north of Babylon. Rawlinson places it at Aker-Kuf, ten miles west by north of Bagdad. Others had regarded it as identical with Clesiphon.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Accad'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/accad.html. 1893.