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# יִשָּׂשכָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3485

**Issachar** — used 43 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Issachar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3485/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשָּׂשכָר: n.pr.m. Issachar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3485/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (so always MT, Qr perpet.; Ben Napht. יִשְׂשָׂכָר Baer Gn p. 84 f.) n.pr.m. Issachar (etym. and meaning dub.; MT as Niph. Impf. √ שׂכר; Kt = יֵשׁ שָׂכָר there is recompense (cf. Gn 30:18), so Thes al.; this the true etym. according to Ol§§ 69 c; 277 f. Köi. 120 v. יֵשׁ שָׂכָר Je 31:16 2 Ch 15:7; = אִישׁ שָׂכָר (a more prob. combination in n.pr.) WeSam. 95; \> יִשָּׂכָר (MT), or יִשָּׂא שׂכר; 𝔊 Ισσαχαρ, see especially Gn 30:18 Ισσαχαρ, ὅ ἐστιν μισθός)— fifth son of Jacob and Leah (appar. ninth son of Jacob) Gn 30:18; 35:23; 46:13; 49:14; Ex 1:3; Nu 1:8; בְּנֵי ישׂ׳ Nu 1:28; 2:5; 26:23; Jos 19:17; 1 Ch 7:1; 12:33 (v 32 van d. H.); מִשְׁפְּחוֹת ישׂ׳ Nu 26:25; 1 Ch 7:5; מַטֵּה ישׂ׳ Nu 1:29; 2:5; 13:7; Jos 21:6, 28; 1 Ch 6:47, 57; מטה בני ישׂ׳ Nu 10:15; 34:26; Jos 19:23; בֵּית ישׂ׳ 1 K 15:27; hence ישׂ׳ alone = tribe of Issachar, Nu 7:18; Dt 27:12; 33:18 Jos 19:17; Ju 5:15(×2); 10:1; Ez 48:33 (שׁער ישׂ׳), 1 Ch 27:18; 2 Ch 30:18; = territory of the tribe Jos 17:10, 11; 1 K 4:17; 1 Ch 12:41 (v 40 van d. H.); transit. from tribe to territory Ez 48:25, 26. 7th son of Obed-Edom 1 Ch 26:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Issachar (24); Issachar (18); \[was\] Issachar (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.3/#tree)

יִשָּׂשכָ֥ר זְבוּלֻ֖ן וּבְנְיָמִֽן׃

*Word for word:* Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin

*JPS 1917:* Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

[Numbers 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.8/#tree)

לְיִ֨שָּׂשכָ֔ר נְתַנְאֵ֖ל בֶּן־צוּעָֽר׃

*Word for word:* for Issachar Nethanel the.son of.Zuar

*JPS 1917:* Of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3485.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3485/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).