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Leah

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈliːə//

The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

    And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured.

  2. 2

    A female given name from Hebrew.

    "I'm Leah Brennan. How can I help you...Gideon?" He gave a short laugh. "Leah! Nice name. Between the two of us, we sound like the Old Testament, don't we?"

  3. 3

    A surname.

Etymology

From Hebrew לֵאָה (Le'a).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).