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Lexicon :: Strong's H3812 - lē'â

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לֵאָה
Transliteration
lē'â
Pronunciation
lay-aw'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

לֵאָה Lêʼâh, lay-aw'; from H3811; weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob:—Leah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's H3812 in the following manner: Leah (34x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's H3812 in the following manner: Leah (34x).

  1. Leah = "weary"

    1. daughter of Laban, first wife of Jacob, and mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לֵאָה Lêʼâh, lay-aw'; from H3811; weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob:—Leah.
STRONGS H3812: Abbreviations
לֵאָה 34 proper name, feminine Leah, elder daughter of Laban, and wife of Jacob (perhaps = wild-cow, Arabic bdb052108, (bdb052109) [compare רָחֵל ewe], DlProl. 80 RSK 219 and (doubtfully) NöZMG xl. 1886, 167; also GrayHeb. Names, 96; others as HptGGN 1883, 100 compare Assyrian li'at, in sense mistress; on possibly relation of לֵאָה to לִוֵי see לִוֵי); — mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah; Genesis 29:16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32 (compare Genesis 29:33; Genesis 29:34; Genesis 29:35) Genesis 30:9 + 15 times Genesis 31:32; Genesis 33:1, 2, 7; Genesis 34:1; Genesis 35:23, 26; Genesis 46:15, 18; Genesis 49:31; Ruth 4:11; Greek Version of the LXX Λ(ε)ια.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

29:16; 29:17; 29:23; 29:24; 29:25; 29:30; 29:31; 29:32; 29:33; 29:34; 29:35; 30:9; 31:32; 33:1; 33:2; 33:7; 34:1; 35:23; 35:26; 46:15; 46:18; 49:31

Ruth

4:11

H3812

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3812 matches the Hebrew לֵאָה (lē'â),
which occurs 34 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters. The older daughter was named Leah, and the younger one was Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - There was no sparkle in Leah’s eyes,[fn] but Rachel had a beautiful figure and a lovely face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - But that night, when it was dark, Laban took Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - (Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - But when Jacob woke up in the morning—it was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob raged at Laban. “I worked seven years for Rachel! Why have you tricked me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her much more than Leah. He then stayed and worked for Laban the additional seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has noticed my misery, and now my husband will love me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Soon Zilpah presented him with a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Leah named him Gad,[fn] for she said, “How fortunate I am!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Then Zilpah gave Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - And Leah named him Asher,[fn] for she said, “What joy is mine! Now the other women will celebrate with me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So that evening, as Jacob was coming home from the fields, Leah went out to meet him. “You must come and sleep with me tonight!” she said. “I have paid for you with some mandrakes that my son found.” So that night he slept with Leah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - And God answered Leah’s prayers. She became pregnant again and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - She named him Issachar,[fn] for she said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Then Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - She named him Zebulun,[fn] for she said, “God has given me a good reward. Now my husband will treat me with respect, for I have given him six sons.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob called Rachel and Leah out to the field where he was watching his flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Rachel and Leah responded, “That’s fine with us! We won’t inherit any of our father’s wealth anyway.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - Laban went first into Jacob’s tent to search there, then into Leah’s, and then the tents of the two servant wives—but he found nothing. Finally, he went into Rachel’s tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and his two servant wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the servant wives and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Next came Leah with her children, and they bowed before him. Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the young women who lived in the area.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob’s oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 - The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These were the sons of Leah and Jacob who were born in Paddan-aram, in addition to their daughter, Dinah. The number of Jacob’s descendants (male and female) through Leah was thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These were the sons of Zilpah, the servant given to Leah by her father, Laban. The number of Jacob’s descendants through Zilpah was sixteen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - Then the elders and all the people standing in the gate replied, “We are witnesses! May the LORD make this woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
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