Leah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Leah
     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).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Leah, weary; tired