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yiśśāšxār יִשָּׂשכָר ‘Issachar’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from nāśāʾ נָשָׂא ‘to lift’ and śāxār שָׂכָר ‘wages’
Roots: נשׂא נסה שׂכר

yiśśāšxār pr n m pers
Issachar = "there is recompense"
n pr m
1) the 9th son of Jacob and the 5th by Leah his first wife and the progenitor of a tribe by his name
2) a Korahite Levite and the 7th son of Obed-edom and doorkeeper to the temple
n pr coll
3) the tribe descended from Issachar the son of Jacob
n pr loc
4) the territory allocated to the descendants of Issachar when they entered the land of Canaan

Mentioned in Genesis 30:18, 49:14, 35:23, 46:13 Exodus 1:3 Numbers 1:28, 26:25, 1:29, 1:8, 2:5, 7:18, 10:15, 13:7, 26:23, 34:26 Deuteronomy 33:18, 27:12 Joshua 17:10, 17:11, 21:6, 21:28, 19:17, 19:23 Judges 10:1, 5:15 1 Kings 15:27, 4:17 Ezekiel 48:25, 48:26, 48:33 1 Chronicles 7:5, 12:33, 27:18, 2:1, 26:5, 7:1, 6:47, 6:57, 12:41 2 Chronicles 30:18

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