How many times is Leah mentioned in the Bible?
The word Leah appears 29 times in the King James Version, in 28 verses. Counting every form (Leah, Leah's), it appears 34 times in 32 verses across 2 of the 66 books. The World English Bible uses Leah 28 times (34 with every form).
Leah in the King James Version and the World English Bible
Each form of Leah counted in each translation.
| Form | KJV | WEB |
|---|---|---|
| Leah | 29 | 28 |
| Leah's | 5 | 6 |
| Total | 34 | 34 |
First and last mention of Leah
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
The verse that uses it most is Genesis 30:14, 2 times (tied with Genesis 31:33):
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
Verses with Leah on our topic pages
1 verse that uses Leah in the World English Bible is in our topic collections.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
Common questions
How many times is Leah in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
In the King James Version, counting every form, 34 of the 34 uses are in the Old Testament and 0 in the New Testament. Leah appears in 2 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Genesis has the most (33), then Ruth (1).
Where is Leah first mentioned in the Bible?
The first use in the King James Version is Genesis 29:16: "And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel." The last is Ruth 4:11.
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Counted by Bible Says About from the full public-domain text of the King James Version (1769 edition) and the World English Bible. Verse text only: headings and psalm titles are left out. A word is a run of letters: a hyphenated name like Beer-sheba counts as two, and an apostrophe stays inside its word (LORD'S is one). Matching ignores capital letters. Data compiled 2026-10-05.