Jastrow: לוּז I

לוּז I (b. h.) pr. n. pl. 1) Luz, in Palestine, identical with, or near, Bethel., in Palestine, identical with, or near, Bethel. Gen. R. s. 69, v. next w.; a. e. —2) Luz, in the land of the Hittites (Jud. I, 26), supposed to be Lizan in Kurdistan (v. Neub. Géogr., p. 394), a place, mentioned in the Talmud as still existing, from which the purple blue (תכלת) was imported. Snh. 12ᵃ (in a secret letter) דברים הנעשים בל׳ (not הנעשה) things manufactured in Luz (תכלת). Sot. 46ᵇ (ref. to Jud. l. c.) היא ל׳ שצובעין וכ׳ it is that Luz where they dye purple blue, which Sennaherib left undisturbed, and Nebucadnezar did not destroy, and where the angel of death has no permission to enter &c.; Gen. R. s. 69 (applied to Gen. XXVIII, 19).