Luz standard
Uebersicht., 157 f). Winckler explains it by Aramaic laudh, "asylum," which might be suitably applied to a sanctuary (Geschichte Israels).
Where is Luz in the Bible?
Luz was an ancient Canaanite city in the central highlands of Canaan, located in the territory that would later become Benjamin. The city is best known as the original name of Bethel, the significant religious site where Jacob experienced his famous dream of a ladder reaching to heaven (Genesis 28:19). According to the book of Judges, Luz was destroyed during the Israelite conquest, but a man who had collaborated with the attackers built a new city also called Luz in the land of the Hittites (Judges 1:26). The theological importance of this location centers on its connection to Jacob's covenant experience and its role as a major sanctuary in ancient Israel's spiritual history.
In Scripture1 biblical book
- Judges
Luz
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)Uebersicht., 157 f). Winckler explains it by Aramaic laudh, "asylum," which might be suitably applied to a sanctuary (Geschichte Israels). Cheyne (EB, under the word) would derive it by corruption from chalutsah, "strong (city)."
(1) This was the ancient name of Bethel (Ge 28:19; Jud 1:23; compare Ge 35:6; 48:3; Jos 16:2; 18:13). It has been thought that Jos 16:2 contradicts this, and that the two places were distinct. Referring to Ge 28:19, we find that the name Bethel was given to "the place," ha-maqom, i.e. "the sanctuary," probably "the place" (28:11, Hebrew) associated with the sacrifice of Abraham (12:8), which lay to the East of Bethel. The name of the city as distinguished from "the place" was Luz. As the fame of the sanctuary grew, we may suppose, its name overshadowed, and finally superseded, that of the neighboring town. The memory of the ancient nomenclature persisting among the people sufficiently explains the allusions in the passages cited.
(2) A Bethelite, the man who betrayed the city into the hands of the children of Joseph, went into the land of the Hittites, and there founded a city which he called Luz, after the ancient name of his native place (Jud 1:26). No satisfactory identification has been suggested.
W. Ewing
lik-a-o'-ni-a, li-ka-o'-ni-a (Lukaonia (Ac 14:6), Lukaonisti, (Ac 14:11, "in the speech of Lycaonia"); Lycaonia is meant, according to the So