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Meaning and etymology of the name Luz
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Luz 
The name Luz occurs twice in the Bible. The original Luz is a town in Canaan, a bit north of Jerusalem. When Jacob arrives there on his way to Haran, he has his famous ladder dream and renames the place Bethel (Genesis 28:19). Much later, the men from the tribe of Joseph sack Bethel but let a collaborator go free. That man founds another town and calls this Luz, after the original name of the town he escaped from (Judges 1:26).
The name Luz comes from the verb (luz) meaning to turn aside. In the Bible this word is used mostly negative, either as a turning away from wisdom (Proverbs 3:21, 4:21) or being a "twisted" person (Proverbs 3:32, 14:2).
The derivative  (lazut) means deviation or crookedness and is used only in Proverbs 4:24. The derivative (luz) means almond wood. The latter word is used only in Genesis 30:37, where Jacob strips branches of the crooked almond tree. Most scholars assume that the town Luz was named Almond Tree because the almonds that grew in its environs. There is no proof of that, however, and Luz may very well have been named after a "crooked and perverse generation" that lived there.
For a meaning of the name Luz, both NOBS Study Bible Name List and Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names read Almond Tree.
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