Strong's Concordance Luz: earlier name of Bethel, also a Hittite city Original Word: לוּזPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Luz Phonetic Spelling: (looz) Short Definition: Luz Brown-Driver-Briggs II. לוּז proper name, of a location 1. former name of Bethel Genesis 28:19 (J), Genesis 35:6 (E), Genesis 48:3 (P), Joshua 18:13 (twice in verse) (P), Judges 1:23; apparently distinct from Biblical מִבֵּיתאֵֿל לוּ֫זָה Joshua 16:2 (J E; but ׳ל here perhaps explanatory gloss, see Di); ᵐ5 Λουζα, Genesis 28:19 [Ουλαμ]μαυς 2 city in hands of Hittites Judges 1:26 (on conjectures as to site see GFM); ᵐ5 Λουζα. לוח (√ of following, meaning unknown; compare perhaps Arabic Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Luz Probably from luwz (as growing there); Luz, the name of two places in Palestine -- Luz. see HEBREW luwz Forms and Transliterations בְּל֖וּז בלוז ל֑וּזָה ל֔וּז ל֗וּזָה ל֙וּזָה֙ ל֥וּז לֽוּז׃ לוז לוז׃ לוזה bə·lūz beLuz bəlūz lū·zāh luz lūz Luzah lūzāhLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 38708 Occurrences bə·lūz — 1 Occ. lūz — 3 Occ. lū·zāh — 4 Occ. Genesis 28:19 HEB: אֵ֑ל וְאוּלָ֛ם ל֥וּז שֵׁם־ הָעִ֖יר NAS: the name of the city had been Luz. KJV: of that city [was called] Luz at the first. INT: Bethel however had been Luz the name of the city Genesis 35:6 Genesis 48:3 Joshua 16:2 Joshua 18:13 Joshua 18:13 Judges 1:23 Judges 1:26 |
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shine, gleam, flash (of star, lightning, etc.), or Syriac 
wipe out, efface with reference to smooth surface; but this = לחה).