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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’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - But in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob [fn]went in to [consummate the marriage with] her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - But in the morning [when Jacob awoke], it was Leah [who was with him]! And he said to Laban, “What is this that you have done to me? Did I not work for you [for seven years] for Rachel? Why have you deceived and betrayed me [like this]?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - So Jacob consummated his marriage and lived with Rachel [as his wife], and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 -

Now when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He [fn]made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - Leah conceived and gave birth to a son and named him Reuben (See, a son!), for she said, “Because the LORD has seen my humiliation and suffering; now my husband will love me [since I have given him a son].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 -

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing [children], she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a [[fn]secondary] wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave birth to a son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad (good fortune).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave birth to a second son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:13

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 -

Now at the time of wheat harvest Reuben [the eldest child] went and found some [fn]mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to 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 - When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have in fact 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 and answered [the prayer of] Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - Then Leah said, “God has given me my reward because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she named him [fn]Issachar.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good [marriage] gift [for my husband]; now he will live with me [regarding me with honor as his wife], because I have given birth to six sons.” So she named him [fn]Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 -

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 -

Then Jacob looked up, and saw Esau coming with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Leah also approached with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel approached, and they bowed down.

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Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out [unescorted] to visit the girls of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 - and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob born to him in Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all of his sons and daughters numbered thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, [the maid] whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter [when she married Jacob]; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons [two sons and fourteen grandchildren].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:31

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - All the people at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the household of Israel. May you achieve wealth and power in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.
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