Word Study · Strong's H3812 · Hebrew
לֵאָה
Leah
lay-aw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Lêʼâh
“Leah, a wife of Jacob”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Leah, a wife of Jacob
Rendered in the KJV as
Leah.
- 34occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 16inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 34 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 16
- לֵאָ֔ה10
- לֵאָ֖ה5
- לֵאָ֗ה4
- לֵאָ֑ה2
- לֵאָה֙2
- וּכְלֵאָה֙1
- וְלֵאָ֔ה1
- וּלְלֵאָ֑ה1
- לֵאָ֣ה1
- לֵאָ֜ה1
- לֵאָ֤ה1
- לֵאָ֛ה1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 7
- Leah26
- [was] Leah2
- to Leah2
- and Leah1
- and like Leah1
- and to Leah1
- more than Leah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- proper noun (a name)28
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpf · 28
- HR/Npf · 3
- HC/R/Npf · 2
- HC/Npf · 1
All 34, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis33 occurrences
- Genesis 29:16לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.here: [was] Leah
- Genesis 29:17לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.here: Leah
- Genesis 29:23לֵאָ֣הleahproper noun (a name)But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.here: Leah
- Genesis 29:24לְלֵאָ֥הleleahpreposition + proper noun (a name)And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.here: to Leah
- Genesis 29:25לֵאָ֑הleahproper noun (a name)When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”here: [was] Leah
- Genesis 29:30מִלֵּאָ֑הmileahpreposition + proper noun (a name)Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.here: more than Leah
- Genesis 29:31לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.here: Leah
- Genesis 29:32לֵאָה֙leahproper noun (a name)And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”here: Leah
- Genesis 30:9לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:10לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:11לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:12לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,here: Leah
- Genesis 30:13לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:14לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”here: Leah
- Genesis 30:14לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”here: Leah
- Genesis 30:16לֵאָ֜הleahproper noun (a name)When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:17לֵאָ֑הleahproper noun (a name)And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:18לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:19לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.here: Leah
- Genesis 30:20לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.here: Leah
- Genesis 31:4וּלְלֵאָ֑הuleleahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,here: and to Leah
- Genesis 31:14וְלֵאָ֔הveleahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?here: and Leah
- Genesis 31:33לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.here: Leah
- Genesis 31:33לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.here: Leah
- Genesis 33:1לֵאָה֙leahproper noun (a name)Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.here: Leah
- Genesis 33:2לֵאָ֤הleahproper noun (a name)He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.here: Leah
- Genesis 33:7לֵאָ֛הleahproper noun (a name)Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.here: Leah
- Genesis 34:1לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.here: Leah
- Genesis 35:23לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.here: Leah
- Genesis 35:26לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.here: Leah
- Genesis 46:15לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.here: Leah
- Genesis 46:18לְלֵאָ֣הleleahpreposition + proper noun (a name)These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.here: to Leah
- Genesis 49:31לֵאָֽה׃leahproper noun (a name)There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.here: Leah