Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3812
לֵאָה
Leahlay-aw'
Leah
34 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Lêʼâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3812is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3812
Leah, a wife of Jacob
The King James renders it: Leah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Leah is rendered "Leah". It stands 34 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Thirty-three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:16Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
Genesis 29:16לֵאָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Leah28
- to Leah2
- and Leah1
- and like Leah1
- and to Leah1
- more than Leah1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 34, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לֵאָ֔ה10
- לֵאָ֖ה5
- לֵאָ֗ה4
- לֵאָ֑ה2
- לֵאָה֙2
- וּכְלֵאָה֙1
- וְלֵאָ֔ה1
- וּלְלֵאָ֑ה1
- לֵאָ֣ה1
- לֵאָ֜ה1
- לֵאָ֤ה1
- לֵאָ֛ה1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)28HNpf
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npf
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npf
Genesis
thirty-three uses
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
- לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
- לֵאָ֣הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- לְלֵאָ֥הleleahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Leah
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?”
- לֵאָ֑הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
- מִלֵּאָ֑הmileahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: more than Leah
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
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.”
- לֵאָה֙leahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
- לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
- לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
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.”
- לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
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.
- לֵאָ֜הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
- לֵאָ֑הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
- לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
“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.
- לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
- וּלְלֵאָ֑הuleleahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Leah
And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
- וְלֵאָ֔הveleahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Leah
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.
- לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
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.
- לֵאָה֙leahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- לֵאָ֤הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
- לֵאָ֛הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
- לֵאָ֔הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
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.
- לֵאָ֖הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
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.
- לֵאָ֗הleahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
- לְלֵאָ֣הleleahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Leah
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
- לֵאָֽה׃leahproper noun (a name)tagged: Leah
Ruth
one use
“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
- וּכְלֵאָה֙ukheleahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and like Leah
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.