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Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
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The Meaning of "Issachar"
Commentators explain that the name "Issachar" means "hire" or "reward." Leah connected this to two events: first, how she had "hired" her husband with mandrakes, and second, her belief that this son was a divine reward for the self-sacrificial act of giving her handmaid to Jacob.
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18th Century
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Issachar. —Hebrew, there is hire. As is so often the case in Hebrew names, there is a double play on the word: for, first…
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And Leah said, God has given me my hire Of the mandrakes with which she had hired of Rachel a night's lodging with Jacob,…
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