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# לוּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3870

**Luz** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Luz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3870/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּז³: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3870/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. former name of Bethel Gn 28:19 (J), 35:6 (E), 48:3 (P), Jos 18:13(×2) (P), Ju 1:23; appar. distinct from B. מִבֵּית־אֵל לוּ֫זָה Jos 16:2 (JE; but ל׳ here perhaps explan. gloss, v. Di); 𝔊 Λουζα, Gn 28:19 \[Ουλαμ\]μαυς. city in hands of Hittites Ju 1:26 (on conject. as to site v. GFM); 𝔊 Λουζα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: to (3); Luz (2); \[was\] Luz (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 16:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.16.2/#tree)

וְיָצָ֥א מִבֵּֽית־אֵ֖לבֵּֽית־אֵ֖ל ל֑וּזָה וְעָבַ֛ר אֶל־גְּב֥וּל הָאַרְכִּ֖י עֲטָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.out from Bethel Bethel to Luz and it.passes.on to the.border of the.Arkite\[s\] Ataroth

*JPS 1917:* And it went out from Beth-el-luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth.

[Judges 1:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.23/#tree)

וַיָּתִ֥ירוּ בֵית־יוֹסֵ֖ף בְּבֵֽית־אֵ֑לבֵֽית־אֵ֑ל וְשֵׁם־הָעִ֥יר לְפָנִ֖ים לֽוּז׃

*Word for word:* and they.caused.to.spy.out the.house of.Joseph at Bethel Bethel and the.name of the.city formerly \[was\].Luz

*JPS 1917:* And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el — now the name of the city beforetime was Luz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3870.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3870/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).