According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Issachar (Hebrew: יִשָּׂשׁכָר, Yissakhar Yiśśâḵār) was one of the Tribes of Israel.
Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes after about 1200 BCE, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. The territory which it was allocated was immediately south of (the western half of) Manasseh, and south of Zebulun and Naphtali, stretching from the Jordan River in the east, to the coast in the west; this region included the fertile Esdraelon plain. (Joshua 19:17-23)
Famous quotes containing the words tribe of and/or tribe:
“Never in misfortune nor in prosperity may I share my dwelling with the tribe of women.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)