Definitions for issachar
ˈɪs əˌkɑris·sachar

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1. Issacharnoun

   (Old Testament) a son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel

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1. Issacharnoun

   Ninth son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

2. Issacharnoun

   One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Issachar.

3. Etymology: Old Testament יִשָּׂשׁכָר (Issachar), a son of Jacob.

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1. Issachar

   Issachar (Hebrew: יִשָּׂשכָר‎, Modern: Yīssaḵar, Tiberian: Yīśśāḵār, "There is reward") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fifth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's ninth son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Issachar. However, some Biblical scholars view this as an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

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1. issachar

   Issachar is a figure from the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, also known as one of the twelve sons of Jacob and Leah in the biblical tradition. He is regarded as the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Issachar. The name "Issachar" is a combination of two Hebrew words "sachar" means reward and "nasa" means to carry, symbolizing the reward given by God to Leah after her long suffering.

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1. Issachar

   Issachar/Yissachar was, according to the Book of Genesis, a son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Issachar; however some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Issachar, which some textual scholars attribute to different sources - one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist; the first being that it derives from ish sakar, meaning man of hire, in reference to Leah's hire of Jacob's sexual favours for the price of some mandrakes; the second being that it derives from yesh sakar, meaning there is a reward, in reference to Leah's opinion that the birth of Issachar was a divine reward for giving her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a concubine. Scholars suspect the former explanation to be the more likely name for a tribe, though some scholars have proposed a third etymology - that it derives from ish Sokar, meaning man of Sokar, in reference to the tribe originally worshipping Sokar, an Egyptian deity.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of issachar in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of issachar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=issachar
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Issachar
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issachar
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=issachar