A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.16; daughter of: Laban (H3837A); sister of: Rachel (H7354); married to Israel (H3478); mother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783) § Leah = "weary" daughter of Laban, first wife of Jacob, and mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah
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H3812 — לֵאָה
le.ah · Leah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 29:16 · לֵאָ֔הLaban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.Genesis 29:17 · לֵאָ֖הLeah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.Genesis 29:23 · לֵאָ֣הIt happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.Genesis 29:24 · לְלֵאָ֥הLaban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.Genesis 29:25 · לֵאָ֑הIt happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Genesis 29:30 · מִלֵּאָ֑הHe went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Genesis 29:31 · לֵאָ֔הYahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.Genesis 29:32 · לֵאָה֙Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”Genesis 30:9 · לֵאָ֔הWhen Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.Genesis 30:10 · לֵאָ֖הZilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a son.Genesis 30:11 · לֵאָ֖הLeah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.Genesis 30:12 · לֵאָ֔הZilpah, Leah’s handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.Genesis 30:13 · לֵאָ֔הLeah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.Genesis 30:14 · לֵאָ֖ה · לֵאָ֔הReuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”Genesis 30:16 · לֵאָ֜הJacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.Genesis 30:17 · לֵאָ֑הGod listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.Genesis 30:18 · לֵאָ֗הLeah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” She named him Issachar.Genesis 30:19 · לֵאָ֔הLeah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.Genesis 30:20 · לֵאָ֗הLeah 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 Zebulun.Genesis 31:4 · וּלְלֵאָ֑הJacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,Genesis 31:14 · וְלֵאָ֔הRachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?Genesis 31:33 · לֵאָ֗ה · לֵאָ֔הLaban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.Genesis 33:1 · לֵאָה֙Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.Genesis 33:2 · לֵאָ֤הHe put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.Genesis 33:7 · לֵאָ֛הLeah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.Genesis 34:1 · לֵאָ֔הDinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.Genesis 35:23 · לֵאָ֔הThe sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.Genesis 35:26 · לֵאָ֖הThe sons of Zilpah (Leah’s handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.Genesis 46:15 · לֵאָ֗הThese are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.Genesis 46:18 · לְלֵאָ֣הThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.Genesis 49:31 · לֵאָֽה׃There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:Ruth 4:11 · וּכְלֵאָה֙All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.