Word

לֵאָה

Lêʼâh · H3812 · Hebrew · proper noun · 34 occurrences

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Person

Leahfirst named in Genesis 29:1632 verses

Meanings

Leah

A woman who was a daughter of Laban and first wife of Jacob, mother of Reuben, Levi, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah, and through her slave Zilpah of Gad and Asher

Examples
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 And Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in figure and appearance.
Genesis 29:23 Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and Jacob had relations with her.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּתdaughter 3
אֵםmother 1

What it doesIt is the subject

11 occurrences in 7 groups

אָמַרto say 4
הָרָהto conceive 2
יָצָאto go out 1
נָגַשׁto come near, to bring near 1
עָנָהto answer 1
רָאָהto see 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
קָבַרto bury 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1
שֵׁםname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 5 groups

אֵלto, toward 6
לto/for 5
מִןfrom 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1
כlike/as 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

9 occurrences in 5 groups

שִׁפְחָהmaidservant, female slave 3
בֵּןson 2
אֹהֶלtent 2
בַּתdaughter 1
עַיִןeye, sight 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Leah is the personal name of Jacob's first wife, the elder daughter of Laban (Genesis 29:16-23), so this entry is classed as a name for a person.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3812. Leah לֵאָה34 proper name, feminine Leah, elder daughter of Laban, and wife of…

H3812. Leah
לֵאָה34 proper name, feminine Leah, elder daughter of Laban, and wife of Jacob (perhaps = wild-cow, Arabic , () [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; Gen 29:16-17, Gen 29:23, Gen 29:24, Gen 29:25, Gen 29:30, Gen 29:31, Gen 29:32 (compare Gen 29:33; Gen 29:34; Gen 29:35) Gen 30:9 Gen 30:15t. Gen 31:32; Gen 33:1-2, Gen 33:7; Gen 34:1; Gen 35:23, Gen 35:26; Gen 46:15, Gen 46:18; Gen 49:31; Rth 4:11; ᵐ5 Λ(ε)ια.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People34 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0