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Leah is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. Its meaning is often deciphered as "delicate" or "weary". The name can be traced back to the Biblical matriarch Leah, one of the two wives of Jacob. This name may derive from Hebrew: לֵאָה, romanized: lē’ah, presumably cognate with Akkadian 𒀖 littu, meaning 'wild cow', from Proto-Semitic *layʾ-at- ~ laʾay-at- 'cow'.
wild cow
A girl name with 1 syllables. Currently considered common.
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Leah is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning "wild cow." In the Hebrew Bible, Leah was the first wife of Jacob and the mother of six sons and one daughter. The name has been popular in Jewish communities for centuries and gained wider international recognition through biblical stories.
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