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And Leah said, "God (Elohim) has given me my reward (Hebr. shachar) because I gave my servant to my husband. And she named (called) him Issachar (Hebr. Jisashchar)." [Meaning there is reward, compensation, or recompense.]
Leah's [six] sons:
Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,
and Simeon
and Levi
and Judah
and Issachar
and Zebulun (Hebr. Zevolun).
The sons of
Issachar:
Tola, Puvah, Job, and
Shimron.
Issachar [meaning "there is compensation"] is a large donkey,
lying down between two sheepfolds (campsites, burdens).
Issachar (Hebr. Yissachar),
Zebulun (Hebr. Zevulun), and
Benjamin (Hebr. Binjamin);
From Issachar (hebr. Jisashchar): Nethanel, son of Zuar.
The sons of Issachar, their generations, according to their families, after the house of their fathers, by the number of names, every male separately, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,
this was the number of those of the tribe of Issachar, they were 54,400.
And those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar.
The leader of the sons of Issachar is Nethanel, the son of Zuar,
On the 2th day, Netanel, son of Tsoar, leader of Issachar, offered his sacrifice.
And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Issachar was Nethanel, son of Zuar.
From the tribe of Issachar, Jigal, son of Joseph.
The sons of Issachar according to their families:
Of Tola, the family of the Tolaim,
of Puvah, the family of the Puvites,
These are the families of Issachar, those who were counted of them, 64,300.
[First count: 54,400, an increase of 9,900.]
And from the tribe of the sons of Issachar, a leader,
Paltiel, son of Azan.
These [six tribes] shall stand on Mount Gerizim [present-day Jebel-et-Tur, to the south] and bless the people when you have crossed the Jordan:
Simeon (Shimon) and
Levi and
Judah (Jehoda) and
Issachar (Jisashchar) and
Joseph and
Benjamin (Binjamin).
And to Zebulun he said, "Rejoice (be glad), Zebulun, when you go out, and Issachar in your tents.
Southward is Ephraim, and northward is Manasseh, and the sea is his border, and it extends to Asher on the north and to Issachar on the east.
In the territories of Issachar and Asher, Manasseh received:
Beit-Shean with its surrounding towns (literally: her daughters),
Jivleam with its surrounding towns (literally: her daughters), the inhabitants of Dor with its surrounding towns, the inhabitants of Ein-Dor with its surrounding towns, the inhabitants of Taanach with its surrounding towns, the inhabitants of Megiddo with its surrounding towns (literally: her daughters), three (the third) Nafot (height, hill).
[The last two words in the verse are literally three nafot. The word means hill or mountainous region. It is a comment that could either refer to Dor (the third city in the list) and that it has an alternative name "Nafot Dor", as in . Or it refers to the geography of the last three cities located in the mountainous region, "the three mountain cities," and is then just a concluding comment.]
And the fourth lot fell to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.
This is the inheritance of the tribes of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
And the sons of Gershon by their families were allotted from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, 13 cities.
And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with the open land around it, Dovrat with the open land around it,
And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah,
as was Issachar, so was Barak,
into the valley he rushed on his feet.
Among the multitudes of Reuben
there was great determination in their hearts.
And after Avimelech, Tola [meaning worm or scarlet], the son of Puah, arose to save Israel, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
Jehoshaphat, son of Paroah – in Issachar;
And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belongs to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
The descendants of Gershom received thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan, by lot, family by family.
From the tribe of Issachar they received Kedesh with pasture lands, Daverat with pasture lands,
The sons of Issachar were Tola, Pua, Jashub, and Shimron, four in all.
Their brothers in all the families of Issachar were valiant warriors. Those listed in their genealogical records numbered 87,000.
from the sons of Issachar, men who understood the signs of the times and realized what Israel should do, 200 commanders and all their kinsmen under their command,
Those who lived nearest to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, also brought them food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen: flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep. There was joy in Israel.
Nethanel the fifth,
Ammiel the sixth,
Issachar the seventh,
Peulletai the eighth—for God had blessed him [with many children, see ].
for Judah Eliho, one of David's brothers,
for Issachar Omri, son of Michael,
There was a large part of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, who had not purified themselves but ate the Passover lamb in a manner other than that prescribed. But Hezekiah had prayed for them and said, "May the Lord (Yahweh), the good one, forgive everyone
Next to Simeon's territory, Issachar shall have a lot, from the east side to the west.
Next to Issachar's territory, Zebulun shall have a lot, from the east side to the west.
Similarly, the south side shall also measure 4,500 cubits [2.3 km] and have three gates: the first shall be the gate of Simeon, the second the gate of Issachar, and the third the gate of Zebulun.
from the tribe of Simeon 12,000 [],
from the tribe of Levi 12,000 [the priests, who were not normally counted, see ],
from the tribe of Issachar 12,000 [],
