Leah

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Leah
לֵאָה‎
Michelangelo's Leah at the tomb of Pope Julius II at San Pietro in Vincoli
Born
Paddan Aram, Aram-Naharaim
(present-day Harran, Turkey)
Died
Canaan
(present-day Israel)
SpouseJacob (cousin/husband)
Children
  • Reuben (son/third and fourth cousin)
  • Simeon (son/third and fourth cousin)
  • Levi (son/third and fourth cousin)
  • Judah (son/third and fourth cousin)
  • Issachar (son/third and fourth cousin)
  • Zebulun (son/third and fourth cousin)
  • Dinah (daughter/third and fourth cousin)
FatherLaban (third cousin)
Relatives
See list
  • Rachel (sister)
  • Esau (cousin/brother-in-law)
  • Rebecca (aunt/mother-in-law)
  • Isaac (father-in-law)
  • Abraham (great-great-granduncle/great-granduncle/grandfather-in-law)
  • Sarah (great-great-grandaunt/great-grandaunt/grandmother-in-law)
  • Bethuel (grandfather/grandfather-in-law))
  • Dan (third and fourth cousin/stepson)
  • Naphtali (third and fourth cousin/stepson)
  • Gad (third and fourth cousin/stepson)
  • Asher (third and fourth cousin/stepson)
  • Joseph (nephew/third and fourth cousin/stepson)
  • Benjamin (nephew/third and fourth cousin/stepson)

Leah[a] (/ˈliːə/) appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root (דודאים, dûdâ'îm). Leah gives birth to two more sons after this, Issachar and Zebulun, and to Jacob's only daughter, Dinah.

  1. ^ Meyers, Carol L.; Craven, Toni; Kraemer, Ross Shepard, eds. (2001), Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, p. 108, ISBN 9780802849625
  2. ^ Hepner, Gershon (2010), Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel, Bern: Peter Lang, p. 422, ISBN 9780820474625
  3. ^ "ab [COW]", The electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, OCLC 163207721


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