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# לֵאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3812

**Leah** — used 34 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Leah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3812/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֵאָה: n.pr.f. Leah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3812/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Leah, elder daughter of Laban, and wife of Jacob (perhaps = wild-cow, Arabic لَأًى, (لَأٓةٌ) \[cf. רָחֵל ewe\], DlProl. 80 RSK 219 and (doubtfully) Nö ZMG xl. 1886, 167; also Gray Heb. Names, 96; others, as HptGGN 1883, 100 comp. Assyrian li’at, in sense mistress; on poss. relation of לֵאָה to לֵוִי v. לֵוִי);—mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah; Gn 29:16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32 (cf. vv 33, 34, 35) 30:9 + 15 times Gn 31, 32; 33:1, 2, 7; 34:1; 35:23, 26; 46:15, 18; 49:31; Ru 4:11; 𝔊 Λ(ε)ια.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Leah (22); of Leah (9); \[was\] Leah (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.10/#tree)

וַתֵּ֗לֶד זִלְפָּ֛ה שִׁפְחַ֥ת לֵאָ֖ה לְיַעֲקֹ֥ב בֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Zilpah the.maidservant of.Leah to Jacob a.son

*JPS 1917:* And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.

[Genesis 30:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.12/#tree)

וַתֵּ֗לֶד זִלְפָּה֙ שִׁפְחַ֣ת לֵאָ֔ה בֵּ֥ן שֵׁנִ֖י לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Zilpah the.maidservant of.Leah a.son second to Jacob

*JPS 1917:* And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3812.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3812/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).