Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H3870
לוּז
Luzlooz
Luz
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Lûwz
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3870is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3870
Luz, the name of two places in Palestine
The King James renders it: Luz.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Luz is rendered "Luz". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 28:19and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
Genesis 28:19ל֥וּז
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Luz towards4
- Luz3
- at Luz1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ל֗וּזָה2
- בְּל֖וּז1
- ל֥וּז1
- ל֔וּז1
- לֽוּז׃1
- ל֑וּזָה1
- ל֙וּזָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)4HNpl/Sd
- proper noun (a name)3HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
Genesis
three uses
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
- ל֥וּזluzproper noun (a name)tagged: Luz
So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
- ל֗וּזָהluzahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Luz towards
Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- בְּל֖וּזbeluzpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Luz
Joshua
three uses
It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.
- ל֑וּזָהluzahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Luz towards
From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.
- ל֗וּזָהluzahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Luz towards
- ל֙וּזָה֙luzahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Luz towards
Judges
two uses
They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
- לֽוּז׃luzproper noun (a name)tagged: Luz
And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- ל֔וּזluzproper noun (a name)tagged: Luz
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.