People of the Bible
Issachar
1751 BC – · Tribe of Issachar
Family
- Father
- Jacob (Israel)
- Mother
- Leah
- Brothers and sisters
- Dinah, Judah (patriarch), Levi (patriarch), Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun
- Half-brothers and sisters
- Asher, Benjamin (patriarch), Dan, Gad, Joseph (son of Jacob), Naphtali
- Children
- Jashub, Puah, Shimron, Tola
In the story
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Birth of Issachar · 1751 BC
- Joseph sold to Egypt · 1727 BC
- 7 years of famine · 1707 BC
- Joseph's brothers return to Egypt · 1705 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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 M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 38 verses
- Genesis
- 30:18, 35:23, 46:13, 49:14
- Exodus
- 1:3
- Numbers
- 1:8, 1:28, 1:29, 2:5, 7:18, 10:15, 13:7, 26:23, 26:25, 34:26
- Deuteronomy
- 27:12, 33:18
- Joshua
- 19:17, 19:23, 21:6, 21:28
- Judges
- 5:15, 10:1
- 1 Kings
- 4:17, 15:27
- 1 Chronicles
- 2:1, 6:62, 6:72, 7:1, 7:5, 12:32, 12:40, 27:18
- 2 Chronicles
- 30:18
- Ezekiel
- 48:25, 48:26, 48:33
- Revelation
- 7:7
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.