Leah
Female
Weary, the eldest daughter of Laban, and sister of Rachel (Gen. 29:16). Jacob took her to wife through a deceit of her father (Gen. 29:23). She was “tender-eyed” (17). She bore to Jacob six sons (32-35), also one daughter, Dinah (30:21). She accompanied Jacob into Canaan, and died there before the time of the going down into Egypt (Gen. 31), and was buried in the cave of Machpelah (49:31).
Relationships
Key verses
Genesis 29:32
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”
Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Genesis 29:30
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis 30:13
Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
Genesis 29:17
Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.