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לוּז

luz

Luz

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Strong’s H3870Proper name, a place8 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

luz6

was luz2

In the text

Genesis 28:19לוּז
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
Joshua 16:2לוּזָה
It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.
Judges 1:23לוּז
They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

Brown-Driver-Briggs

לוּז n.pr.loc.

1. former name of Bethel

2. city in hands of Hittites

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.