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
In a telephone interview from Israel, Ms. Issachar’s mother, Yaffa Issachar, said that her daughter had cried when she heard about Ms. Griner’s case, telling her: “I know what she’s going through now.”
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
Dan and Asher also lay in the Northern hills, and Issachar south of Naphtali and Zebulon.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
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