Leah

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Hebrew לֵאָה

Proper noun

Leah

1. (biblical) Elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.
   • 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 29:16-17

     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. A female given name.
   • 2010 Cavn Wright, Bedtime Tales, Strategic Book Publishing, ISBN 1609111249, page 113:

     "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?"

Translations

elder daughter of Laban

Danish: Lea (da) Estonian: Lea (et) Finnish: Lea (fi) French: Léa (fr) German: Lea (de) Hawaiian: Lea

Hebrew: לֵאָה (he) Italian: Lia (it); Lea (it) (older versions) Norwegian: Lea (no) Portuguese: Léia (pt) Spanish: Lea (es), Lía (es) Swedish: Lea (sv)

given name

Hebrew: לֵאָה (he)

Anagrams

• hale, Hale
• heal

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Norwegian

Etymology

From English Leah, in regular use since the 1990s. Used as a modern spelling variant of the Norwegian biblical name Lea.

Proper noun

Leah

1. A female given name.

References

• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1711 females with the given name Leah, compared to 1274 named Lea, living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on March 29th, 2011.