H3870 לוּז
Lûwz — Luz, the name of two places in Palestine
KJV: Luz.
Derived from לוּז lûwz (some kind of nuttree, perhaps the almond)
Occurs 8 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לוּז n.pr.loc.
- 1 former name of Bethel
- 2 city in hands of Hittites
Where it occurs
- Genesis 28:19 — He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Genesis 35:6 — So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
- Genesis 48:3 — Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
- Joshua 16:2 — It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
- Joshua 18:13 — The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to…
- Judges 1:23 — The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
- Judges 1:26 — The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.