Leah
Americannoun
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Also Lia (in the Bible) the first wife of Jacob.
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a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “weary.”
noun
Example Sentences
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Leah Byrne, who plays DC Rose Dickson, says the show is "very unashamedly Scottish".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yasaman Bakhtiar, 27, and Leah Marcus, 26, founded Good Girl Snacks in 2023 when they noticed “pickles were becoming to Gen Z what avocado was to millennials,” Bakhtiar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Leah Saint Marie, a filmmaker and former projectionist at the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, attributed the staffing struggle to the experience and knowledge divide between hobbyists and experts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Conservator Margalida Munar, papyrologist Leah Mascia, and Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, professor in the Department of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages, classical philologist, and director of the Oxyrhynchus project, examined the fragile document.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Instead, in April of 1850, just after the two-year anniversary of the peddler’s spirit in Hydesville, Maggie and Leah appeared once again in Corinthian Hall.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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