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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 Box Gen 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Lavan had two daughters. The name of the elder was Le'ah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - Le'ah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - It happened in the evening, that he took Le'ah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - Lavan gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Le'ah for a handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Le'ah. He said to Lavan, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Le'ah, and served with him yet seven other years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - The LORD saw that Le'ah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - Le'ah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Re'uven. For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Le'ah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Ya`akov as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, bore Ya`akov a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Le'ah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, bore Ya`akov a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - Le'ah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - Re'uven went in the days of wheat harvest, and found dudaim in the field, and brought them to his mother, Le'ah. Then Rachel said to Le'ah, "Please give me some of your son's dudaim."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - Ya`akov came from the field in the evening, and Le'ah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's dudaim." He lay with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - God listened to Le'ah, and she conceived, and bore Ya`akov a fifth son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - Le'ah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Yissakhar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Le'ah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Ya`akov.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - Le'ah 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 Zevulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - Ya`akov sent and called Rachel and Le'ah to the field to his flock,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - Lavan went into Ya`akov's tent, into Le'ah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Le'ah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Ya`akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esav was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Le'ah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the handmaids and their children in front, Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef at the rear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Le'ah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Yosef came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - Dinah, the daughter of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov, went out to see the daughters of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - The sons of Le'ah: Re'uven (Ya`akov's firstborn), Shim`on, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 - The sons of Zilpah (Le'ah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Ya`akov, who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are the sons of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov in Paddan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to Le'ah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov, even sixteen souls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There they buried Avraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Yitzchak and Rivka, his wife, and there I buried Le'ah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - All the people who were in the gate, and the Zakenim, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous in Beit-Lechem:
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