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(Heb. Achad', àִçִã , the “constr.” of àֶçָã , one, v. r. Achath', àִçִú , id.), thought by some to be the name of a heathen deity mentioned in the difficult phrase, Isa_66:17, àִúִã àִúִã áִּúָּéֶêְ , after one (of them) in the midst, Sept. êáὶ ἐí ôïῖò ðñïèýñïéò , 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. Rosenmüller, 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 àçø , 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.