ACCAD*

One of the three cities (Babel, Erech, and Accad, rsv) in the plains between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers said to have been founded by Nimrod (Gn 10:10). “Akkadian” (from Accad) has become a general designation for the Semitic language of Mesopotamia from the days of Sargon (c. 2360 BC) through Assyrian and Babylonian times.