Issachar

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Issachar
     hired (Gen. 30:18). "God hath given me," said Leah, "my hire
     (Heb. sekhari)...and she called his name Issachar." He was
     Jacob's ninth son, and was born in Padan-aram (comp. 28:2). He
     had four sons at the going down into Egypt (46:13; Num. 26:23,
     25).
     
       Issachar, Tribe of, during the journey through the wilderness,
     along with Judah and Zebulun (Num. 2:5), marched on the east of
     the tabernacle. This tribe contained 54,400 fighting men when
     the census was taken at Sinai. After the entrance into the
     Promised Land, this tribe was one of the six which stood on
     Gerizim during the ceremony of the blessing and cursing (Deut.
     27:12). The allotment of Issachar is described in Josh.
     19:17-23. It included the plain of Esdraelon (=Jezreel), which
     was and still is the richest portion of Palestine (Deut. 33:18,
     19; 1 Chr. 12:40).
     
       The prophetic blessing pronounced by Jacob on Issachar
     corresponds with that of Moses (Gen. 49:14, 15; comp. Deut.
     33:18, 19).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Issachar, reward; recompense