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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 - Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah H3812, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - And Leah’s H3812 eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - Now it happened in the evening that he took his daughter Leah H3812 and brought her to him; and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - Laban also gave his servant-woman Zilpah to his daughter Leah H3812 as a servant-woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - Now it happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah H3812! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah H3812, and he served with [fn]Laban for another seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 -

And Yahweh saw that Leah H3812 was [fn]unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - So Leah H3812 conceived and bore a son and named him [fn]Reuben, for she said, “Because Yahweh has [fn]seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 -

Then Leah H3812 saw that she had stopped bearing, so she took her servant-woman Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - And Leah’s H3812 servant-woman Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Then Leah H3812 said, “[fn]How fortunate!” So she named him [fn]Gad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - And Leah’s H3812 servant-woman Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - Then Leah H3812 said, “[fn]Happy am I! For women will call me happy.” So she named him [fn]Asher.

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And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah H3812. Then Rachel said to Leah H3812, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - Then Jacob came in from the field in the evening. And Leah H3812 went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - And God listened to Leah H3812, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - And Leah H3812 said, “God has given me my [fn]wages because I gave my servant-woman to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Then Leah H3812 conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - And Leah H3812 said, “God has gifted me a good gift; this time my husband [fn]will honor me because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah H3812 to his flock in the field,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah H3812 said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

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So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s H3812 tent and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s H3812 tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

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Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children [fn]among Leah H3812 and Rachel and the two servant-women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - And he put the servant-women and their children first, and Leah H3812 and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Leah H3812 likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

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Now Dinah the daughter of Leah H3812, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 -

the sons of Leah H3812:

Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,

then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

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and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s H3812 servant-woman:

Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob 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 Leah H3812, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; [fn]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah H3812; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - “There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah H3812—

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh grant the woman who is coming into your home to be like Rachel and Leah H3812, both of whom built the house of Israel, and so you shall [fn]achieve [fn]excellence in Ephrathah and shall [fn]proclaim your name in Bethlehem.
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