lea · Leah

What it means

lea (לֵאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Leah”.

Elder daughter of Laban and Jacob's first wife; mother of six of his sons and of Dinah.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×33
• Ruth×1

• Genesis 29:16

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

• Genesis 29:17

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

• Genesis 29:23

  But in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave her Zilpah his slave woman, to Leah his daughter as a slave woman.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, look, she was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in to Rachel also, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served with him yet another seven years.

• Genesis 29:31

  YHWH saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because YHWH has seen my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 30:9

  Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, and she took Zilpah her slave woman and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

• Genesis 30:10

  Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman, bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:11

  Leah said, “What good fortune!” And she called his name Gad.

• Genesis 30:12

  Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman, bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I! For the daughters will call me happy.” So she called his name Asher.

• Genesis 30:14

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

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, “To me you must come, for I have surely hired you with the mandrakes of my son.” So he lay with her that night.

• Genesis 30:17

  Elohim heard Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “Elohim has given me my wages, because I gave my slave woman to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “Elohim has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.

• Genesis 31:4

  So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock.

• Genesis 31:14

  Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there still for us a portion or an inheritance in the house of our father?

• Genesis 31:33

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

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and look, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the slave women and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.

• Genesis 33:7

  Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

• Genesis 34:1

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

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 35:26

  The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

• Genesis 46:15

  These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

• Genesis 46:18

  These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.

• Genesis 49:31

  There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

• Ruth 4:11

  And all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “Witnesses. May YHWH make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel. Act with worth in Ephrathah and have renown in Bethlehem.

And 2 more times.