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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 - And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - And the eyes of Leah were tender; but Rachel was of beautiful form and beautiful countenance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his maidservant, to be maidservant to Leah his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done to me? Have I not served thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben; for she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the fields to his flock,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - And Dinah the daughter of Leah, 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: Reuben -- Jacob's firstborn -- and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and 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 maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - -- These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

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

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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 Rebecca his wife; and there I buried Leah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - And all the people that were in the gate and the elders said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that cometh into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel; and acquire power in Ephratah, and make thyself a name in Bethlehem;
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