2. A city in the land of the Hittites' whose origin is thus recorded—' The man (who had be trayed the ancient Luz to the Ephraimites) went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day (Judg. i. 26). Rosenmuller would identify it with the Luza (AotTd.), which Eusebius locates three miles from Neapolis ; but Winer naturally asks how could that district have been called the land of the IIittites' in the time of the Judges (Onomast., s. v. ; Wrner, R. W., s. v. Lus)? The Hittites appear to have retired before the Israelities to northern Syria, and settled in the mountains and on the banks of the Orontes [IIITTITE4 Probably Luz was situated some where in that region.—J. L. P.
LUZ (1.1) occurs only once in the O. T., namely, in Gen. xxx. 37 (a passage already adduced in the article L1BNEH), where it indicates one of the kinds of rod from which Jacob peeled the bark, and which he placed in the water-troughs of the cattle. Luz is translated hazel in the A. V., as well as in several others ; in some it is rendered by words equivalent to 'walnut,' but almond ' ap pears to be its true meaning. For in the Arabic
we have ;if louz, which is indeed the same word, and which denotes the almond. Thus Abu'l Fadli, as quoted by Celsius (Ilierobot. i. 254), says, `Lcuz est arbor nota, et magna, foliis mollibus. Species dum, hortensis et silvestris. Hortcnsis quoque dum sunt species, dulcis et amara ;' where reference is evidently made to the sweet and bitter ahnond. Other Arab authors also describe the almond under the name of kuz. But this name was well known to the Hebrews as indicating the almond; for R. Saadias, in Ibn Esra's Comment., as quoted by Celsius (p. 253), remarks : Lus est amygdalus, quia ita eam appellant Arabes ; nam hoe dum lingum, et Syriaca, ejusdem sunt familim.' Al monds have been always produced in Syria and Palestine, and extend from thence into Affghan istan. But as there is another word by which the almond was known to the Hebrews, we shall re serve our further remarks for that head [SHAKAD]. —J. F. R.