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(Hebrew: יִשָּׂשכָר, Modern Yissakhar, Tiberian Yiśśāḵār; “reward; recompense”)
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*’Issachar’ / ‘Yissachar’ was, according to the ‘Book of Exodus’, a son of ‘Jacob’ and ‘Leah’ (the 5th son of ‘Leah’, and 9th son of ‘Jacob’), and the founder of the Israelite ‘Tribe of Issachar’*
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(however, some biblical scholars view this as an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the ‘israelite confederation’)
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