Issachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds;
Leah said, “God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband”; so she called his name Issachar.
he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave at forced labor.
Of Issachar men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, two hundred chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.
He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
Then they came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our little ones,
And of Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.
After Abimelech there arose to deliver Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.