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== | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52392" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> <strong> LUZ. </strong> 1. [[Genesis]] 28:19; Genesis 35:6; Genesis 48:3 , Joshua 16:2; Joshua 18:13 , Judges 1:23-26 . The exact locality is uncertain, and a comparison of the above passages will show that it is also uncertain whether [[Luz]] and <strong> [[Bethel]] </strong> were one or two sites. In Genesis 28:19 it is stated that [[Jacob]] changed the name of the place of his vision from Luz to Bethel (cf. also Genesis 35:6 , Judges 1:23 ). The two passages in Joshua, however, seem to contradict this; both of them speak of Luz and Bethel as two distinct places. A possible solution is that Luz was the name of the old [[Canaanite]] city, and Bethel the pillar and altar of Jacob outside the city. 2. Luz is also the name of a city built on Hittite territory after the destruction of the original Canaanite city ( Judges 1:26 ). </p> <p> T. A. Moxon. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73660" /> == | |||
<p> Luz. (almond tree). It seems impossible to discover with precision whether [[Luz]] and [[Bethel]] represent one and the same town - the former the Canannite, the latter the Hebrew, name - or whether they were distinct places, though in close proximity. The most probable conclusion is that, the two places were, during the times preceding the conquest, distinct, Luz being the city and Bethel the pillar and altar of [[Jacob]] that, after the destruction of Luz by the tribe of Ephraim, the town of Bethel arose. </p> <p> When the original Luz was destroyed, through the treachery of one of its inhabitants, the man who had introduced the [[Israelites]] into the town went into the "land of the Hittites" and built a city which he named after the former one. Judges 1:28. Its situation, as well as that of the "land of the Hittites," has never been discovered, and is one of the favorable puzzles of [[Scripture]] geographers. </p> | |||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70431" /> == | |||
<p> [[Luz]] (lŭz), almond tree. 1. The [[Canaanite]] name for the place in which [[Jacob]] rested and had a prophetic vision, and afterward the city of Bethel; now Beitin. [[Genesis]] 28:19; Genesis 35:6; Genesis 48:3; Joshua 16:2; Joshua 18:13; Judges 1:23. 2. A city in the land of the Hittites, built by an inhabitant of the original Luz, who was spared when the city was sacked, Judges 1:23; now Luweizîyeh, four miles northwest of Banias. </p> | |||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32462" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32462" /> == | ||
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36403" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36403" /> == | ||
<p> (See BETHEL.) [[Luz]] was originally the city, [[Bethel]] the pillar and altar of Jacob; in [[Genesis]] 12:8 it is called Bethel by anticipation (Genesis 28:19), after Ephraim's conquest the town Bethel arose. The nearness of the two accounts for their being identified in all eases where there was no special reason for distinguishing them. After one of the townsmen of ancient Luz had betrayed it to [[Israel]] he went into "the land of the Hittites," and built a city of the same name (Judges 1:23-26). [[Answering]] to Khirbet Lozeh, close to Beitin. </p> | <p> (See BETHEL.) [[Luz]] was originally the city, [[Bethel]] the pillar and altar of Jacob; in [[Genesis]] 12:8 it is called Bethel by anticipation (Genesis 28:19), after Ephraim's conquest the town Bethel arose. The nearness of the two accounts for their being identified in all eases where there was no special reason for distinguishing them. After one of the townsmen of ancient Luz had betrayed it to [[Israel]] he went into "the land of the Hittites," and built a city of the same name (Judges 1:23-26). [[Answering]] to Khirbet Lozeh, close to Beitin. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16509" /> == | |||
<p> The ancient name of a part at least of Bethel, [[Genesis]] 28:19 John 16:2 18:13; afterwards given to a smaller place founded by a refugee from Bethel, Judges 1:26 . See Bethel, Judges 1:26 . See [[Bethel]] . </p> | |||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67400" /> == | |||
<p> 1. City of the Canaanites, afterwards called BETHEL, <i> q.v. </i> </p> <p> 2. City in the land of the Hittites, built by the man who had betrayed the city in Canaan, and who called it after the same name. Judges 1:26 . Identified by some with ruins at <i> el Luweiziyeh, </i> 33 16' N, 35 36' E . </p> | |||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_41844" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_41844" /> == | ||
[[Genesis]] 28:19[[Bethel]]Joshua 16:2 Judges 1:26 | [[Genesis]] 28:19[[Bethel]]Joshua 16:2 Judges 1:26 | ||
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48107" /> == | == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48107" /> == | ||
<p> The original spot called afterwards "Bethel, the house of God." (Genesis 28:19) [[Luz]] seems to have meant separation. </p> | <p> The original spot called afterwards "Bethel, the house of God." (Genesis 28:19) [[Luz]] seems to have meant separation. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_140415" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_140415" /> == | ||
<p> (n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. </p> | <p> (n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_48857" /> == | |||
<p> (Heb. id. לוּז, a nut-bearing tree, either the almond or hazel, as in [[Genesis]] 30:37 [but according to Fü rst, after Hiller, sinking, as of a valley]; Sept. Λουζά, but in Genesis 28:19 unites with the preceding word Οὐλαμλούζ ), the name of two places. </p> <p> 1. The ancient name of the [[Canaanitish]] city on or near the site of [[Bethel]] (Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:6; Genesis 48:3), on the border of [[Benjamin]] (Joshua 18:13); taken and destroyed, with all its inhabitants (except one family that had acted as spies), by the descendants of [[Joseph]] (Judges 1:23). The spot to which the name of Bethel was given appears, however, to have been at a little distance in the environs of Luz, and they are accordingly distinguished in Joshua 16:2, although the Heb. name of Bethel eventually superseded the Canaanitish one Luz; or rather, perhaps, [[Luz]] was the name of a locality near which Bethel was afterwards built. The form of the name in the Sept., Eusebius, and the Vulg. seems to have been derived from Joshua 18:13, where the words אֶלאּכֶּתֶ לוּזָה should, according to ordinary usage, be rendered "to the shoulder of Luzah;" the ah, which is the particle of motion in Hebrew, not being required here, as it is in the former part of the same verse. Other names are found both with and without a similar termination, as Jotbah, Jotbathah; Timnath, Timnathah; Riblah, Riblathah, [[Laish]] and [[Laishah]] are probably distinct places. [[Van]] de Velde is confident that he has recovered the site of Luz in the modern ruins called Khurbet el-Lozeh, one hour and a half west of Beth-el (Notes to the 2d ed. of his Map, page 16). (See [[Bethel]]). </p> <p> 2. A small place in the district of the Hittites, founded by an inhabitant of the former Luz, who was spared on the destruction of this place by the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 1:26); and this seems to dispose of the identification with the ruins still found on Matthew [[Gerizim]] (Stanley, page 231 sq.), bearing the name of Luza (Seetzen, Reise, 1:174; Wilson, 2:69), about ten minutes beyond the trench of the [[Samaritan]] sacrifice (Van de Velde, Memoir, page 331). Schwarz thinks the site may be identified with that of wady Luzacn, in the interior of the desert of et-Tih, north-west of Jebel el-Aralf, (on the strength of the Talmudic statement that this place lay without the bounds of [[Palestine]] (Palest. page 213). This is doubtless the wady Lussan described by Dr. Robinson as a broad plain swept over by torrents from the mountains on the right, destitute of any fountain or water, and containing only a few remains of rude walls and foundations, which he regards as the traces of the [[Roman]] station Lysa along this route (Researches, 1:276, 277). Rosenmü ller (Alterth. II, 2:129) refers the name to Luza, a city, according to [[Eusebius]] (Onomast. s.v.), lying three miles from Shlechem; but this could not have been Hittite territory. Studer (Buch d. Richter, page 45) adopts a suggestion of D. Kimchi, that a city of the Phoenicians (Kittim, so Eusebius, Κεττείμ, Onomast. s.v. 2) is meant. [[Probably]] it was some place near Hebron, in southern Palestine, where the [[Hittites]] were settled. (See Hittite). </p> | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_5736" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_5736" /> == | ||
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== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16106" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16106" /> == | ||
<p> The ancient name of [[Bethel]] [BETHEL]. The spot to which the name of Bethel was given appears, however, to have been at a little distance in the environs of Luz, and they are accordingly distinguished in , although the name of Bethel was eventually extended to that town. A small place of the same name, founded by an inhabitant of this Luz, is mentioned in . </p> | <p> The ancient name of [[Bethel]] [BETHEL]. The spot to which the name of Bethel was given appears, however, to have been at a little distance in the environs of Luz, and they are accordingly distinguished in , although the name of Bethel was eventually extended to that town. A small place of the same name, founded by an inhabitant of this Luz, is mentioned in . </p> | ||
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<ref name=" | <ref name="term_52392"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/luz Luz from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_73660"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_70431"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/luz Luz from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_32462"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_32462"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
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<ref name="term_36403"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_36403"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="term_16509"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_67400"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_67400"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="term_41844"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/luz Luz from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="term_48107"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hawker-s-poor-man-s-concordance-and-dictionary/luz Luz from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_140415"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/luz Luz from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_140415"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/luz Luz from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_48857"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/luz Luz from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_5736"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/luz Luz from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_5736"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/luz Luz from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_16106"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/luz Luz from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_16106"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/luz Luz from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref> | ||
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