Genesis 49:15
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He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

rest.

Joshua 14:15 The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the greatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from wars.

Judges 3:11 And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel, the son of Cenez, died.

2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

bowed.

Psalm 81:6 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.

Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

Context
Jacob Blesses His Sons
14Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders. 15He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.16Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:14
Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.

Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute.

Isaiah 31:8
And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.

Lexicon
He saw
וַיַּ֤רְא (way·yar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

his resting place
מְנֻחָה֙ (mə·nu·ḥāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4496: Repose, peacefully, consolation, an abode

was good
ט֔וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

and that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

his land
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

was pleasant,
נָעֵ֑מָה (nā·‘ê·māh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5276: To be pleasant, delightful, or lovely

so he bent
וַיֵּ֤ט (way·yêṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

his shoulder
שִׁכְמוֹ֙ (šiḵ·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7926: The neck, as the place of burdens, the spur of a, hill

to the burden
לִסְבֹּ֔ל (lis·bōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5445: To carry, be burdensome, to be gravid

and submitted
וַיְהִ֖י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to labor
לְמַס־ (lə·mas-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4522: Body of forced laborers, forced service, taskworkers, taskwork, serfdom

as a servant.
עֹבֵֽד׃ (‘ō·ḇêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave


Additional Translations
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.

And he saw a resting-place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork.

And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labour, and became a husbandman.

And he saw the rest that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And was a tributary servant.

And he saw a resting place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork.

And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

And he seeth rest that it is good, And the land that it is pleasant, And he inclineth his shoulder to bear, And is to tribute a servant.
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