Issachar, the Glossary
Issachar 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.[1]
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57 relations: Abraham, Asher, Av (month), Benjamin, Biblical criticism, Blessing of Jacob, Book of Genesis, Books of Chronicles, Chabad.org, Confederation, Dan (son of Jacob), Dinah, Documentary hypothesis, Donkey, Egypt, Elohist, Eponym, Etiology, Etymology, Francisco de Zurbarán, Gad (son of Jacob), Hebrew language, Israelites, Jacob, Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Jahwist, Joktan, Joseph (Genesis), Judah (son of Jacob), Keturah, Leah, Levi, List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, A–K, Metaphor, Naphtali, Paddan Aram, Peake's Commentary on the Bible, Rabbinic literature, Rachel, Rameh, Reuben (son of Jacob), Richard Elliott Friedman, Samaritans, Sea Peoples, Sefer haYashar (midrash), Seker, Shekelesh, Sidon, Simeon (son of Jacob), Talmud, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Children of Jacob
- Founders of biblical tribes
- Tribe of Issachar
Abraham
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Asher
Asher (אָשֵׁר ’Āšēr), in the Book of Genesis, was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (Jacob's eighth son) and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Asher. Issachar and Asher are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
Av (month)
Av (also Menachem Av) is the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar.
Benjamin
Benjamin (בִּנְיָמִין Bīnyāmīn; "Son of (the) right")blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (i.e., Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. Issachar and Benjamin are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
Biblical criticism
Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural.
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Blessing of Jacob
The Blessing of Jacob is a prophetic poem that appears in Genesis at and mentions each of Jacob's twelve sons.
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Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Books of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles (דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים, "words of the days") is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament.
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Chabad.org
Chabad.org is the flagship website of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
Confederation
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.
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Dan (son of Jacob)
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (דָּן, Dān, "judgment" or "he judged") was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah (Jacob's fifth son). Issachar and Dan (son of Jacob) are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
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Dinah
In the Book of Genesis, Dinah was the seventh child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob. Issachar and Dinah are children of Jacob.
Documentary hypothesis
The documentary hypothesis (DH) is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).
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Donkey
The donkey or ass is a domesticated equine.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Elohist
According to the documentary hypothesis, the Elohist (or simply E) is one of four source documents underlying the Torah, together with the Jahwist (or Yahwist), the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source.
Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.
Etiology
Etiology (alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination.
Etymology
Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664) was a Spanish painter.
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Gad (son of Jacob)
Gad was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (Jacob's seventh son) and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad. Issachar and Gad (son of Jacob) are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Israelites
The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.
Jacob
Jacob (Yaʿqūb; Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jacob and His Twelve Sons
Jacob and his twelve sons is a series of thirteen paintings by Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán.
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Jahwist
The Jahwist, or Yahwist, often abbreviated J, is one of the most widely recognized sources of the Pentateuch (Torah), together with the Deuteronomist, the Priestly source and the Elohist.
Joktan
Joktan (also written as Yoktan;; translit) was the second of the two sons of Eber (Book of Genesis 10:25; 1 Chronicles 1:19) mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Joseph (Genesis)
Joseph (lit) is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. Issachar and Joseph (Genesis) are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
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Judah (son of Jacob)
Judah was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah and the founder of the Tribe of Judah of the Israelites. Issachar and Judah (son of Jacob) are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
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Keturah
Keturah (קְטוּרָה, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; قطورة) was a wife (1917 Jewish Publication Society of America translation).
Leah
Leah appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root (דודאים, dûdâ'îm).
Levi
Levi was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Issachar and Levi are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, A–K
This article contains persons named in the Bible, specifically in the Hebrew Bible, of minor notability, about whom little or nothing is known, aside from some family connections.
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Naphtali
According to the Book of Genesis, Naphtali was the sixth son of Jacob, the second of his two sons with Bilhah. Issachar and Naphtali are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
Paddan Aram
Paddan Aram or Padan-aram (Paddan ʾĂrām) was a biblical region referring to the northern plain of Aram-Naharaim.
Peake's Commentary on the Bible is a one-volume commentary on the Bible, first published in 1919.
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Rabbinic literature
Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history.
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Rachel
Rachel was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel.
Rameh
Rameh (الرامة; רָמָה; alternatively spelled ar-Rame or ar-Rama) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel.
Reuben (son of Jacob)
Reuben or Reuven (רְאוּבֵן, Standard Rəʾūven, Tiberian Rŭʾūḇēn) was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's oldest son), according to the Book of Genesis. Issachar and Reuben (son of Jacob) are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
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Richard Elliott Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman (born May 5, 1946) is an American biblical scholar, theologian, and translator who currently serves as the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia.
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Samaritans
The Samaritans (שומרונים; السامريون), often prefering to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East.
Sea Peoples
The Sea Peoples were a group of tribes hypothesized to have attacked Egypt and other Eastern Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during the Late Bronze Age.
Sefer haYashar (midrash)
Sefer haYashar (ספר הישר) is a medieval Hebrew midrash, also known as the Toledot Adam and Divrei haYamim heArukh.
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Seker
Seker (also spelled Sokar, and in Greek, Sokaris or Socharis) is a hawk or falcon god of the Memphite necropolis in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the dead.
Shekelesh
The Shekelesh (Egyptian language: šꜣkrwšꜣꜣ or šꜣꜣkrwšꜣꜣ) were one of the several ethnic groups the Sea Peoples were said to be composed of, appearing in fragmentary historical and iconographic records in ancient Egyptian from the Eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd millennium BC.
Sidon
Sidon or Saida (Ṣaydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.
Simeon (son of Jacob)
Simeon was the second of the six sons of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite tribe, The Tribe of Simeon, according to the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. Issachar and Simeon (son of Jacob) are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
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Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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The Exodus
The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm) is the founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).
The Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century.
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Tribe of Issachar
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Issachar was one of the twelve tribes of Israel and one of the ten lost tribes.
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Yigael Yadin
Yigael Yadin (יִגָּאֵל יָדִין; 20 March 1917 – 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician.
Zebulun
Zebulun (also Zebulon, Zabulon, or Zaboules in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus, was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers,Genesis 46:14 the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Zebulun. Issachar and Zebulun are children of Jacob and founders of biblical tribes.
Zilpah
In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah (זִלְפָּה Zīlpā, meaning uncertain) was Leah's handmaidIn Context whom Leah gave to Jacob like a wife to bear him children.
See also
Children of Jacob
- Asher
- Benjamin
- Dan (son of Jacob)
- Dinah
- Gad (son of Jacob)
- Issachar
- Joseph (Genesis)
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness
- Judah (son of Jacob)
- Levi
- Naphtali
- Reuben (son of Jacob)
- Simeon (son of Jacob)
- Zebulun
Founders of biblical tribes
- Asher
- Benjamin
- Dan (son of Jacob)
- Ephraim
- Gad (son of Jacob)
- Gilead
- Heth (Bible)
- Issachar
- Joseph (Genesis)
- Judah (son of Jacob)
- Levi
- Machir
- Manasseh (tribal patriarch)
- Naphtali
- Reuben (son of Jacob)
- Simeon (son of Jacob)
- Zebulun
Tribe of Issachar
- Issachar
- Tribe of Issachar
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issachar
Also known as Yisachar, Yisakhar, Yissachar, Yissakhar, Yissochor, יִשָּׂשׁכָר.
, Textual criticism, The Exodus, The Jewish Encyclopedia, Tribe of Issachar, Yigael Yadin, Zebulun, Zilpah.