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Strong's #3870 - לוּז
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- Luz = "almond tree"
- the early name of Bethel and probably the name of the town in close proximity to the actual location of the altar and pillar of Jacob
- the name of a town in the land of the Hittites; site unknown
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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 
shine, gleam, flash (of star, lightning, etc.), or Syriac 
wipe out, efface with reference to smooth surface; but this = לחה).
לוּז
(1) to bend, to bend aside. (Arabic لاَذَ Conj. I. III. to bend, to incline.)
(2) to turn away, to depart, to go back, Proverbs 3:21.
Niphal, particip. נָלוֹז perverted, i.e. perverse, wicked (compare עָוָה, עָקַשׁ), Proverbs 3:32 Neutr. נָלוֹו perverseness, wickedness, Isaiah 30:12. More fully, Proverbs 14:2, נלוֹז דְּרָכָיו “whose ways are perverse;” and Proverbs 2:15, נְלוֹזִים בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָם id.
Hiphil, fut. יַלִּיזוּ (inflected in the Chaldee manner, like יַלִּינוּ from לוּן); i.q. Kal, to go away, depart, Proverbs 4:21.
לוּז m.
(1) the almond tree, Genesis 30:37. (Arab. لُوزُ, لُوزَةُ Syr. ܠܘܽܙܐܳ. Its derivation is hardly to be sought for in the Phœnicio-Shemitic languages. It seems to be softened from the original form, which, in Armenian, is preserved in րՆԳջ engies; Lat. in nux; which, with a different inflection, is found in Hebrew, in אֱגוֹז a nut.)
(2) [Luz], pr.n.
(a) of a town in the tribe of Benjamin, called also from its neighbouring sanctuary בֵּית אֵל [but see Genesis 27:17, for the true reason of this latter name], (see p. 117, A ), Joshua 18:13; Judges 1:23.
(b) another in the country of the Hittites, founded by an inhabitant of the former. Judges 1:26.
