STRONGS NUMBER H3870


Word Summary
Luz: earlier name of Bethel, also a Hittite city
Original Word: לוּז
Transliteration: Luz
Phonetic Spelling: (looz)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: earlier name of Bethel, also a Hittite city
Meaning: Luz -- earlier name of Bethel, also a Hittite city
Strong's Concordance
Luz

Probably from luwz (as growing there); Luz, the name of two places in Palestine -- Luz.

see HEBREW luwz

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3870. Luz

II. לוּזproper name, of a location 1. former name of Bethel Genesis 28:19 (J), 35:6 (E), 48:3 (P), Joshua 18:13 (twice in verse) (P), Judges 1:23; apparently distinct from Biblical לוּ֫זָה מִבֵּיתאֵֿלJoshua 16:2 (J E; but ׳ל‎ here perhaps explanatory gloss, see Di); ᵐ5Λουζα, Genesis 28:19 [Ουλαμ]μαυς

2 city in hands of Hittites Judges 1:26 (on conjectures as to site see GFM); ᵐ5Λουζα.

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).