Issachar
Americannoun
noun
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the fifth son of Jacob by his wife Leah (Genesis 30:17–18)
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the tribe descended from this patriarch
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the territory of this tribe
Example Sentences
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She was freed when Putin pardoned her, after he met her mother, Yaffa Issachar, during a January 2020 trip to Israel marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022
Ms. Issachar, who was allowed to visit her daughter twice a month, also remembers the Lenin monument — along with the din of barking prison dogs that, she said, were being trained in the yard.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
Issachar was convicted and sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison before she was freed after spending nine months behind bars.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2022
Issachar Baer is saying that when we serve as a channel for something else – for God, for love, for giving, for service, for care – that “independent self” falls away.
From Salon • May 7, 2016
Issachar conquered the heights of Tirzah and Gilboa, as far as Tabor; Zebulon planted himself between the right bank of the Kishon and the lake of Kinneroth, in the region of Jokneam and Beth Arbel.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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