Leah in the Bible

Meaning: weary; tired

Exact Match

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

Thematic Bible



And God will listen to Leah, and she will conceive and bear to Jacob the fifth son. And Leah will say, God gave me My hire because I gave my maid to my husband: and she will call his name Issachar. And Leah will conceive yet again, and will bear the sixth son to Jacob. read more.
And Leah will say, God gave me a good gift; this time will my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons. And she will call his name Zebulon. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and she will call her name Dinah. And God will remember Rachel, and God will listen to her, and he will open her womb.


And Jehovah will see that Leah was hated, and he will open her womb: and Rachel barren. And Leah will conceive and will bring forth a son, and she will call his name Reuben: for she said that Jehovah saw my affliction, for now my husband will love me. And she will yet again conceive and bear a son, and she will say that Jehovah heard that I am hated, and he will give to me this also; and she will call his name Simeon. read more.
And she will conceive yet again, and will bear a son, and she will say, The time now, my husband will join himself to me, for I bare to him three sons: for this his name was called Levi And she will conceive yet again and will bear a son, and she will say, This time I will confess to Jehovah: for this she called his name Judah; and she will stand from bearing.

And Leah will see that she stood from bringing forth, and she will take Zilpah her maid and will give her to Jacob for a wife. And Zilpah, Leah's maid, will bear to Jacob a son. And Leah will say, In good fortune: and she will call his name Gad. read more.
And Zilpah, Leah's maid, will bear a second son to Jacob. And Leah will say, In my happiness, for the daughters will pronounce me happy; and she will call his name Asher.

And God will listen to Leah, and she will conceive and bear to Jacob the fifth son. And Leah will say, God gave me My hire because I gave my maid to my husband: and she will call his name Issachar. And Leah will conceive yet again, and will bear the sixth son to Jacob. read more.
And Leah will say, God gave me a good gift; this time will my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons. And she will call his name Zebulon. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and she will call her name Dinah.


And Jacob will rise, and lift up his sons and his wives upon the camels.

And Jacob will send and call to Rachel and to Leah in the field to his sheep.

And Rachel will answer, and Leah, and they will say to him, Is yet to us a portion and inheritance in our father's house?

And he set the maids and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind them. And he passed through before them, and he will bow himself upon the earth seven times till he brought himself near to his brother. And Esau will run to his meeting and he will embrace him and will fall upon his neck and will kiss him, and they will weep. read more.
And he will lift up his eyes and will see the women and the children, and he will say, To whom these to thee? And he will say, The children with whom God compassionated thy servant. And the maids will draw near, they and their children, and they will bow themselves. And Leah also will draw near, and her children, and they will bow themselves; and after, Joseph will draw near and Rachel, and they will prostrate themselves.


And it will be in the evening, and he will take Leah his daughter, and bring her to him, and he will go in to her. And Laban will give to her, Zilpah his maid, to Leah his daughter a maid. And it will be in the morning, and behold, she was Leak And he will say to Laban, What this thou didst to me? did I not serve with thee for Rachel? and wherefore didst thou deceive me? read more.
And Laban will say, It shall not be done so in our place, to give the small before the first-born.


And to Laban two daughters: the name to the great, Leah; and the name to the small, Rachel.


And all the people which are in the gate will say, and the old men, Witnesses. Jehovah will give the woman coming into thy house as Rachel and as Leah, which they two built up the house of Israel: and make thou power in Ephratah, and call a name in the house of bread.


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