Issachar
Issachar/Yissachar (Hebrew: יִשָּׂשכָר, Modern Yissakhar, Tiberian Yiśśāḵār ; "reward; recompense") was, according to the Book of Exodus, a son of Jacob and Leah (the fifth son of Leah, and ninth son of Jacob), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Issachar; however some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Issachar, which some textual scholars attribute to different sources - one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist; the first being that it derives from ish sakar, meaning man of hire, in reference to Leah's hire of Jacob's sexual favours for the price of some mandrakes; the second being that it derives from yesh sakar, meaning there is a reward, in reference to Leah's opinion that the birth of Issachar was a divine reward for giving her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a concubine. Scholars suspect the former explanation to be the more likely name for a tribe, though some scholars have proposed a third etymology - that it derives from ish Sokar, meaning man of Sokar, in reference to the tribe originally worshipping Sokar, an Egyptian deity.
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Issachar
by: Mighty Mighty BosstonesWhere's the wizzler, where's the corn?
Get jacuzzi on the horn, where's the wizzler
Whatever happened to the mob?
He had to quit and get a job
Road manager, security,
Hangin' shirts and makin' tea
Where's the wizzler, where's the corn?
Near the elevator, is there porn?
What a a man gotta deal wit!
My head's not orange, cut the shit!
Jack, Jack ca mi sey Jack Flanagan
Mi a go tell a likkie storie bout mi good bredren
Wa go by de name of Jack Flanagan
It was a long time ago down a CBGB
Mi look pon mi bredren name Docta Dready
Mi sey Docta D who booked dis opening band
Mon in a 3 piece suit wit guitar ina im hand,
ca mi sey Jack Flanagan
On the road and on the phone,
Roll up the window roll a bone
Rollin' a buck in a forty zone
Now settle up and head for home
He's Issachar now hear him roar
When he's lost his temper find the door
It's almost always good to see him,
He's one damn fine human being
Jack Flanagen
Mi bredren Bosstones dem naw slip dem naw miss
Flanagen im was di Mob guitarist
Nowadays he manage Reggae artist
So when you wan get pin Micky Dread guest list
Jack Flanagen him naw resist
Jack Flanagen, Jack Flanagen
Got us 'cross the border,
Helpin' hand when it began
Kept our shit in order my man Jack Flanagen
In his town he'll hook you up, he'll show you 'round, he'll watch your back
When we head down we look him up
and hang around with Irish Jack
Much, much, much respect,
In this world it's hard to find
A stand up guy who'll stand behind
You if you're ever in a bind