לֵאָה
Lêʼâh · lay-aw'
Leah, a wife of Jacob
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3811 (לָאָה); weary;
Leah, a wife of Jacob
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Leah.
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › strength, the leader › to reveal, behold
Authority, the one who leads of strength, the leader that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לֵאָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and leah11 · 32%
- leah5 · 15%
- leah's3 · 9%
- of leah3 · 9%
- to leah2 · 6%
- unto leah2 · 6%
- was leah1 · 3%
- behold, it was leah1 · 3%
- more than leah1 · 3%
- that leah1 · 3%
- when leah1 · 3%
- and into leah's1 · 3%
- of leah's1 · 3%
- and like leah1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.