Lexicon Leah: "weary," a wife of Jacob Original Word: לֵאָהPart of Speech: Proper Name Feminine Transliteration: Leah Phonetic Spelling: (lay-aw') Short Definition: Leah NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom laahDefinition"weary," a wife of Jacob NASB TranslationLeah (28), Leah's (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs לֵאָה34 proper name, feminine Leah, elder daughter of Laban, and wife of Jacob (perhaps = wild-cow, Arabic  , (  ) [compare רָחֵל ewe], Dl Prol. 80 RS K 219 and (doubtfully) Nö ZMG xl. 1886, 167; also Gray Heb. Names, 96; others as Hpt GGN 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 15t. 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; ᵐ5 Λ( ε) ια. Strong's Leah From la'ah; weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob -- Leah. see HEBREW la'ah |
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