Genesis 30:18

18 Le'ah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Yissakhar.

Genesis 30:18 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:18

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire
Of the mandrakes with which she had hired of Rachel a night's lodging with Jacob, and for which she had a sufficient recompense, by the son that God had given her: and she added another reason, and a very preposterous one, and shows she put a wrong construction on the blessing she received: because I have given my maiden to my husband;
which, she judged, was so well pleasing to God, that he had rewarded her with another son; and she called his name Issachar,
which signifies "hire" or "reward"; or, there is a reward, or a man of reward.

Genesis 30:18 In-Context

16 Ya`akov came from the field in the evening, and Le'ah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's dudaim." He lay with her that night.

17 God listened to Le'ah, and she conceived, and bore Ya`akov a fifth son.

18 Le'ah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Yissakhar.

19 Le'ah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Ya`akov.

20 Le'ah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zevulun.