Lexicon Luz: earlier name of Bethel, also a Hittite city Original Word: לוּזPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Luz Phonetic Spelling: (looz) Short Definition: Luz NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably from the same as luzDefinitionearlier name of Bethel, also a Hittite city NASB TranslationLuz (8).
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).
Strong's Luz Probably from luwz (as growing there); Luz, the name of two places in Palestine -- Luz. see HEBREW luwz |
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