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Luz (Hebrew: ל֥וּז Lūz) is the name of two places in the Bible. Luz is the ancient name of a royal Canaanite city, connected with Bethel (Genesis 28:19; 35:6).
Judges 1:26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day. (1) A town near the place where Abraham halted and offered sacrifice on his way south from Shechem. 1. Identification and Description: It lay West of Ai (Genesis 12:8).
LUZ luz (ל֥וּז, almond tree). 1. The more ancient (Canaanite) name of the city of Bethel (Gen 28:19; 35:6). It was changed to Bethel (House of God) by Jacob after the Lord appeared to him in a dream during his flight from home. It became a holy place in the later history of Israel.
A place in the land of the Hittites, founded ( Judges 1:26) by "a man who came forth out of the city of Luz." It is identified with Luweiziyeh, 4 miles north-west of Banias. These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.
Usage: In the Bible, "Luz" refers to two distinct locations. The first is an ancient city in the land of Canaan, which was later renamed Bethel by Jacob after his vision of the ladder reaching to heaven (Genesis 28:19).
(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 (Judges 1:26). No satisfactory identification has been suggested.
The Old Testament town of Bethel (formerly named Luz) was one of the first places in the Bible where the Hebrew people met with God. The most famous of these encounters was Jacob’s dream of a stairway to heaven, with angels ascending and descending on it, and the Lord standing above it ( Genesis 28:10–22 ).
Referring to Genesis 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.
The Biblical city of Luz is also referred to as Qushta (the Aramaic word for “truth”) because its inhabitants who never lied, never died before their time (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a). Significant connections between Luz and life/death are also found in our chapter.
ESV He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. NIV He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. NASB Then he named that place Bethel; but previously the name of the city had been Luz.