What Does Joshua 19:17 Mean in the King James?
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Issachar receives a lot, and its name already carries the language of wages and reward.
THE MEANING
This verse shows a portion named for a people and traced through their families. The name Issachar carries the language of wages or reward, placing that echo beside the tribe’s allotted share.
THE ROOT
יִשָּׂשכָר
Yissākār
GROWS FROM
שכר
Hire, wages, or reward.
Genesis 30:18 links Issachar’s name with שָׂכָר (sākār, hire or reward). Here the lot falls to a tribe whose name carries that reward-language, though the verse does not say the land is payment.
ALSO GROWS
sākār: Hire, wages, or reward.
שָׂכָר
This noun is the wordplay Genesis uses when Leah names Issachar, so it reveals the meaning carried by the tribe’s name.
sākhar: To hire or employ.
שָׂכַר
The verb shares the name’s root and connects Issachar’s name to the act of hiring that produces wages or reward.
THE PATTERN
A lot assigns a portion, while naming makes clear who receives it.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.THE THREAD
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.Genesis links Issachar’s name with שָׂכָר (sākār, hire or reward). Joshua’s lot then falls to that name, bringing the root’s reward-language alongside the tribe’s allotted share.
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