Strong’s H3870 · Hebrew
לוּז
Lûwz · looz
Origin probably from לוּז (H3869) (as growing there);
Meaning Luz, the name of two places in Palestine
In the King James Version Luz.
In 7 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 28:19And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
- Genesis 35:6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
- Genesis 48:3And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
- Joshua 16:2And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
- Joshua 18:13And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
- Judges 1:23And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
- Judges 1:26And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.