yisashchar · Issachar

What it means

yisashchar (יִשָּׂשכָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Issachar”.

A son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him. The name sounds like "wages".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×7
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×9
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “Elohim has given me my wages, because I gave my slave woman to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 46:13

  The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

• Genesis 49:14

  Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

• Exodus 1:3

  Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

• Numbers 1:8

  from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;

• Numbers 1:28

  Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:29

  those of them counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:5

  Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the chief of the sons of Issachar is Nethanel son of Zuar,

• Numbers 7:18

  On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, presented his offering.

• Numbers 10:15

  And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Issachar was Nethanel son of Zuar.

• Numbers 13:7

  of the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

• Numbers 26:23

  The sons of Issachar by their families: Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

• Numbers 26:25

  These are the families of Issachar, according to those of them counted: sixty-four thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 34:26

  of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel son of Azzan;

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin.

• Deuteronomy 33:18

  And of Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.

• Joshua 17:10

  The south was Ephraim’s and the north Manasseh’s, and the sea was its border; and they reached Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

• Joshua 17:11

  And in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns: the three heights.

• Joshua 19:17

  For Issachar the fourth lot came out, for the sons of Issachar according to their families.

• Joshua 19:23

  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families: the cities with their villages.

• Joshua 21:6

  And the sons of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

• Joshua 21:28

  And from the tribe of Issachar: Kishion with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,

• Judges 5:15

  The chiefs of Issachar were with Deborah; and as Issachar, so Barak: into the valley he was sent on foot. In the divisions of Reuben great were the resolves of heart.

• Judges 10:1

  After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

• 1 Kings 4:17

  Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;

• 1 Kings 15:27

  Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

• 1 Chronicles 2:1

  These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

• 1 Chronicles 6:62

  And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, fell thirteen cities.

• 1 Chronicles 6:72

  and from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,

• 1 Chronicles 7:1

  And the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

• 1 Chronicles 7:5

  And their brothers, of all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor: eighty-seven thousand was their genealogical record of all.

• 1 Chronicles 12:32

  and of the sons of Issachar, who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel should do, their heads, two hundred, and all their brothers at their command;

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 26:5

  Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for Elohim had blessed him.

• 1 Chronicles 27:18

  for Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; for Issachar, Omri son of Michael;

• 2 Chronicles 30:18

  For the majority of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover not as it is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May YHWH, the good one, make expiation for

• Ezekiel 48:25

  And beside the border of Simeon, from the side of the east to the side of the sea: Issachar, one.

• Ezekiel 48:26

  And beside the border of Issachar, from the side of the east to the side of the sea: Zebulun, one.

• Ezekiel 48:33

  And the side of the south, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

And 3 more times.