Leah in the Bible
Meaning: weary; tired
Exact Match
Now Laban had two daughters: the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
Leah had ordinary
That evening, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
And Laban gave his slave Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her slave.
When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Wasn’t it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me?”
Finish the week [of the wedding feast] for Leah; then we will give you Rachel also, and in return you shall work for me for seven more years.”
So Jacob complied and fulfilled Leah’s week [of celebration]; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his [second] wife.
Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved,
Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,
And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah.
Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”
When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
Leah said, “I am happy that the women call me happy,”
Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field.
But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?”
“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.
Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.
Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female slaves.
He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
Dinah, Leah’s daughter
Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun.
were Gad and Asher.
These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Thematic Bible
Children » In answer to prayer » Leah
and Leah saith, 'God hath endowed me -- a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun; and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah. And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,
Leah » Children of
And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Now is the time, my husband is joined unto me, because I have born to him three sons,' therefore hath one called his name Levi. And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, 'I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing.
And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob, and Leah saith, 'Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.
and Leah saith, 'God hath endowed me -- a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun; and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah.
Leah » Flees with jacob
and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, 'What are these to thee?' And he saith, 'The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.' And the maid-servants draw nigh, they and their children, and bow themselves; and Leah also draweth nigh, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel, and they bow themselves.
Leah » Married to jacob
And Laban saith, 'It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first-born;