Gender Feminine
Scripts לֵאָה(Hebrew)
Meaning & History
From the Hebrew name לֵאָה (Leʾa), which was probably derived from the Hebrew word לָאָה (laʾa) meaning "weary, grieved" [1]. Alternatively it might be related to Akkadian littu meaning "cow". In the Old Testament Leah is the first wife of Jacob and the mother of seven of his children. Jacob's other wife was Leah's younger sister Rachel, whom he preferred. Leah later offered Jacob her handmaid Zilpah in order for him to conceive more children.Although this name was used by Jews in the Middle Ages, it was not typical as an English Christian name until after the Protestant Reformation, being common among the Puritans.
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VariantLea(Hebrew)
Other Languages & CulturesLeia(Biblical Greek) Lea(Biblical Hebrew) Lia(Biblical Latin) Lia(Catalan) Lea(Croatian) Lea(Czech) Lea, Ea(Danish) Lea(Dutch) Lea(Estonian) Lea(Finnish) Léa, Lya(French) Lía(Galician) Lia(Georgian) Lea(German) Lia(Greek) Lea(Hungarian) Lia, Lea(Italian) Lėja(Lithuanian) Lea, Ea(Norwegian) Leia, Lia(Portuguese) Lea(Slovak) Lea(Slovene) Lea(Swedish)
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Sculpture of the biblical Leah by Michelangelo (1545)
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Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3811, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3811.