Ezekiel 48:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

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יִשָׂשכָ֥ר

Yissâˢkâr

H3485

“Issachar”

Noun, Proper

Appears 43× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 30:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5375 and H7939

TWOT: None

Issachar = "there is recompense" - the 9th son of Jacob and the 5th by Leah his first wife and the progenitor of a tribe by his name (noun proper masculine) - a Korahite Levite and the 7th son of Obed-edom and doorkeeper to the temple (noun proper masculine) - the tribe descended from Issachar the son of Jacob (noun proper collective) - the territory allocated to the descendants of Issachar when they entered the land of Canaan (noun proper locative)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10: words
9: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יִשָׂשכָ֥ר Issachar H3485 occurs in 40 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִפְּאַ֥ת corner H6285 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 48:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 19:17–23 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Genesis 30:14–18 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezekiel 48:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַ֣ל גְּב֣וּל שִׁמְע֗וֹן מִפְּאַ֥ת קָדִ֛ימָה עַד פְּאַת יָ֖מָּה יִשָׂשכָ֥ר אֶחָֽד

By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 48:25 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ὁ ὅριον ὁ συμεων ἀπό ὁ πρός ἀνατολή ἕως ὁ πρός θάλασσα ισσαχαρ εἷς

And from the borders of Symeon, from the eastern parts to the western, Issachar, one.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְעַל תְּחוּם שִׁמְעוֹן מֵרוּחַ מַדִינְחָא וְעַד רוּחַ מַעֲרָבָא יִשָׂשׂכָר חָד:

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 48:25 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a [portion].

Ver. 25. {See Trapp on "Eze 48:2"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:3"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:4"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:5"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:6"} {See Trapp on "Eze 48:7"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Simeon--omitted in the blessing of Moses in Deu. 33:1-29 perhaps because of the Simeonite "prince," who at Baal-peor led the Israelites in their idolatrous whoredoms with Midian (Num 25:14).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Gill's Exposition

And at the east side four thousand and five hundred,.... Measures or reeds: this side was equal to the north, as the rest were to this; the whole city in its circumference making an equilateral square:

and three gates; which were as follow:

one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan; Joseph is here as having a gate, though he is not mentioned as having a portion; but his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who are here omitted; which made room for Levi's name to be inserted; and Dan, who had his portion first, is here placed in the middle, no order being observed; the whole being mystical and spiritual.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yissâˢkâr (“Issachar”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yissâˢkâr carries the sense “Issachar.” How does it shape the verse?
Genesis 30:18 shares the word «Issachar» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“corner” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“corner” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.