יִשָּׂשכָר
Issachar
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3485 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 4:17 בְּ/יִשָׂשכָֽר prep + n Proper Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
- 1 Kings 15:27 יִשָּׂשכָ֔ר n Proper Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Issachar” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יששכר (Yissâˢkâr). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 30:18. It appears 40 verses across 10 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Numbers. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3485 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 40
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 40 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #837
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 837 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 40 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 10 verses 25%
- 1 Chronicles 9 verses 23%
- Joshua 6 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 40 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 17 verses · 43%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 13 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Issachar 42×
- American Standard Version: Issachar 37×
- Berean Standard Bible: Issachar 38×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Issachar 43×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3485 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3485 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3485 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3485 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 5 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- 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…
- 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)
Word origin
Derived from נשא (nâsâʼ) (H5375) — to lift.
Forms in the corpus
The 25 distinct written forms H3485 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יִשָּׂשכָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:27 | 5 |
| יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 49:14 | 4 |
| וְ/יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 27:12 | 3 |
| יִשָּׂשכָ֑ר | Noun, Proper | Judges 10:1 | 3 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֑ר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 46:13 | 2 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:72 | 2 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:1 | 2 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֗ר | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 48:26 | 2 |
| יִשָּׂשכָֽר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 30:18 | 2 |
| יִשָּׂשכָר֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 48:33 | 2 |
| לְ/יִ֨שָּׂשכָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:17 | 2 |
| בְּ/יִשָׂשכָֽר | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:17 | 1 |
| בְּ/יִשָּׂשכָ֣ר | Noun, Proper | Joshua 17:11 | 1 |
| בְּ/יִשָּׂשכָר֙ | Noun, Proper | Judges 5:15 | 1 |
| וְ/יִשָּׂשכָר֙ | Noun, Proper | Judges 5:15 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Joshua 17:10 | 1 |
| יִ֠שָׂשכָר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:62 | 1 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֣ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:5 | 1 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 48:25 | 1 |
| יִשָׂשכָ֨ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:40 | 1 |
| יִשָּׂשכָ֗ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:32 | 1 |
| יִשָּׂשכָ֣ר | Noun, Proper | Joshua 21:6 | 1 |
| יִשָּׂשכָ֤ר | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:18 | 1 |
| יִשָּׂשכָ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Exodus 1:3 | 1 |
| לְ/יִ֨שָׂשכָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 27:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3485, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משא massâʼ H4853 burden
- משא massôʼ H4856 partiality
- משאה massâʼâh H4858 uplifting
- משאת masʼêth H4864 burden
- מתנשא mithnassêʼ H4984 to exalt oneself
- נשא nᵉsâʼ H5376 to lift
- נשאת nissêʼth H5379 portion
- נשואה nᵉsûwʼâh H5385 load
- נשיא nâsîyʼ H5387 chief
- שאת sᵉʼêth H7613 exaltation
- שוא sôwʼ H7721 rising
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 14 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Issachar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(reward). I. The ninth son of Jacob and the fifth of Leah. (Genesis 30:17,18) (B.C. 1753-45) At the descent into Egypt four sons are ascribed to him, who founded the four chief families of the tribes. (Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:23,25; 1 Chronicles 7:1) The number of the fighting men of Issachar, when taken in the census at Sinai, was 54,400. During the journey they seem to have steadily increased. The allotment of Issachar lay above that of Manasseh. (Joshua 19:17-23) In the words of Josephus, "it extended in length from Carmel to the Jordan, in breadth to Mount Tabor." This territory was, as it still is, among the richest land in Palestine. It is this aspect of the territory of Issachar which appears to be alluded to in the blessing of Jacob.
+ A Korhite Levite, one of the door-keepers of the house of Jehovah, seventh son of Obed-edom. (1 Chronicles 26:5)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
reward; recompense
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 39 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 40 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 30:18
- Exodus 1:3
- Numbers 1:8
- Deuteronomy 27:12
- Joshua 17:10
- Judges 5:15
- 1 Kings 4:17
- 1 Chronicles 2:1
- 2 Chronicles 30:18
- Ezekiel 48:25
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
