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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.
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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 name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - Leah had weak[fn] eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, 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 - Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”[fn] So she named him Gad.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father’s estate?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:26

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram,[fn] besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were 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 at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
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