# H3870 לוּז

לוּז (Lûwz), Strong’s H3870: Luz, the name of two places in Palestine KJV: Luz.. Occurs 8 times.

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*Lûwz* — Luz, the name of two places in Palestine

KJV: Luz.

Derived from [לוּז lûwz](https://besorah.bible/word/H3869) (some kind of nuttree, perhaps the almond)

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לוּז n.pr.loc.
- 1 former name of Bethel
- 2 city in hands of Hittites

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 28:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=19) — He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- [Genesis 35:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=3) — Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
- [Joshua 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/16?v=2) — It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
- [Joshua 18:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=23) — The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
- [Judges 1:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=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.