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Strong's #3865 - לוּד
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- Lud or Lydia = "strife"
- n pr m
- the 4th listed son of Shem and supposed progenitor of the Lydians
- n patr
- descendants of Lud the son of Shem who settled in northern Africa
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1 Lud, Lydia, Assyrian Luddu: — אַרְמַּכְשַׁד וְלוּד וַאֲרָם Genesis 10:22 = 1 Chronicles 1:17 ᵐ5 Λουδ.
2 apparently a people in northeast Africaתַּרְשִׁישׁ מּוּל וְלוּד Isaiah 66:19, ᵐ5 Λουδ; ׳וּפוּט מָּרַס וְל Ezekiel 27:10; כּוּשׁ וּפוּט וְלוּד Ezekiel 30:5 ( + לוּב q. v.), in both ᵐ5 Λ(ο)υδοι; also plural לוּדִים a 'son' of Misraim, Genesis 10:13 ᵐ5 Λυδιειμ ("" לְהָבִים) = 1 Chronicles 1:11 (לוּדִי֯יםׅ; Jeremiah 46:9 ("" מּוּט, כּוּשׁ) see לוּב above — On this African לוּד see Di Genesis 10:13, opposed to Sta Javan 5 ff. compare WMM As.Eur.115.
לוּד [Ludim, Lydians], pr.n. of two nations
(1) of one sprung from Shem, Genesis 10:22 according to Josephus (Ant. i. 6, § 4 ) the Lydians in Asia Minor, an opinion not improbable.
(2) of an African people (perhaps belonging to Ethiopia), of Egyptian origin, accustomed to fight with bows and arrows. Ezekiel 27:10, 30:5 Isaiah 66:19 and לוּדִים Genesis 10:13; Jeremiah 46:9. See J. D. Michaëlis, Spicileg. tom. i. p. 256-260; ii. 114, 115.
