Bible Names

Issachar: meaning of the name

Issachar means “reward; recompense.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Issachar in Hebrew and Greek

יִשָּׂשכָר H3485

Yissâˢkâr (yis-saw-kawr') — Jissaskar, a son of Jacob

(strictly yis-saws-kawr'); from H5375 (נָשָׂא) and H7939 (שָׂכָר); he will bring a reward;

Ἰσαχάρ G2466

Isachár — Isachar (i.e. Jissaskar), a son of Jacob (figuratively, his descendant)

of Hebrew origin (H03485);

People named Issachar in the Bible

Issachar in Scripture

“Issachar” appears in 41 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 30:18

    And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

  • Genesis 35:23

    The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

  • Genesis 46:13

    And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

  • Genesis 49:14

    Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

  • Exodus 1:3

    Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

  • Numbers 1:8

    Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

  • Numbers 1:28

    Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

  • Numbers 1:29

    Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.