Lea in de Bijbel: Jakobs eerste vrouw, en wat haar naam betekent

Leah was Jacob’s first wife, given to him by her father’s trick in place of her younger sister, Rachel. Her Hebrew name, Le’ah, is usually explained as “weary” or as “wild cow”; Genesis itself never says what it means. She bore six of Jacob’s twelve sons, Levi and Judah among them, and a daughter, Dinah. Hers is the story of a woman loved less, and Genesis does not soften it. It also says that the LORD saw her. The son…