{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3870",
  "lemma": "לוּז",
  "transliteration": "Lûwz",
  "definition": "Luz, the name of two places in Palestine",
  "kjv": "Luz.",
  "occurrences": 8,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H3869",
      "lemma": "לוּז",
      "transliteration": "lûwz",
      "meaning": "some kind of nuttree, perhaps the almond",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3869"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "לוּז n.pr.loc.",
    "1. former name of Bethel",
    "2. city in hands of Hittites"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 28:19",
      "text": "He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:6",
      "text": "So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 48:3",
      "text": "Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 16:2",
      "text": "It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/16?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 18:13",
      "text": "The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:23",
      "text": "The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:26",
      "text": "The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=26"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3870",
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}