Brown-Driver-Briggs
II.
לוּז proper name, of a location 1. former name of Bethel Genesis 28:19 (J),
Genesis 35:6 (E),
Genesis 48:3 (P),
Joshua 18:13 (twice in verse) (P),
Judges 1:23; apparently distinct from Biblical
מִבֵּיתאֵֿל לוּ֫זָה Joshua 16:2 (J E; but
׳ל here perhaps explanatory gloss, see Di);
ᵐ5 Λουζα,
Genesis 28:19 [Ουλαμ]μαυς 2 city in hands of Hittites Judges 1:26 (on conjectures as to site see GFM); ᵐ5 Λουζα.
לוח (√ of following, meaning unknown; compare perhaps Arabic 
shine, gleam, flash (of star, lightning, etc.), or Syriac 
wipe out, efface with reference to smooth surface; but this = לחה).
