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ISSACHAR (a Hebrew name meaning apparently " there is a hire," or " reward ")

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 885 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
ISSACHAR (a Hebrew name meaning apparently " there is a hire," or " reward ") , Jacob's ninth " son," his fifth by Leah; also the name of a tribe of
Israel
 . Slightly differing explanations of the reference in the name are given in Gen. xxx. 16 (J) and v. 18 (E).' The territory of the tribe (Joshua xix. 17-23) lay to the
south
  of that allotted to Zebulun, Naphtali, Asher and Dan, and included the whole of the
great
  plain of Esdraelon, and the hills to the
east
  of it, the boundary in that direction extending from Tabor to the Jordan, apparently along the deep gorge of Wadi el Bireh. In the
rich
  territory of Issachar, traversed by the
great
  commercial highway from the Mediterranean and
Egypt
  to Bethshean and the Jordan, were several important towns which remained in the hands of the Canaanites for some time (Judges i. 27), separating the tribe from Manasseh. Although Issachar is mentioned as having taken some part in the war of freedom under Deborah (Judges v. Is), it is impossible to misunderstand the reference to its tributary
condition
  in the blessing of Jacob (Gen. xlix. 14 seq.), or the fact that the name of this tribe is omitted from the
list
  given in Judges i. of those who bestirred themselves against the earlier inhabitants of the country. In the " blessing upon Zebulun and Issachar " in Deut. xxxiii. 18 seq., reference is made to its agricultural life in terms suggesting that along with its younger, but more successful " brother," it was the guardian of a sacred mountain (Carmel, Tabor?) visited periodically for sacrificial feasts.


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