STRONGS NUMBER H3865


Word Summary
Lud: a son of Shem, also his desc. and their land
Original Word: לוּד
Transliteration: Lud
Phonetic Spelling: (lood)
Part of Speech: proper name, masculine and of a people
Short Definition: a son of Shem, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Lud -- a son of Shem, also his descendants and their land
Strong's Concordance
Lud, Lydia

Probably of foreign derivation; Lud, the name of two nations -- Lud, Lydia.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3865. Lud

לוּדִים לוּד,proper name, masculine and of a people

1 Lud, Lydia, Assyrian Luddu: — וַאֲרָם וְלוּד אַרְמַּכְשַׁדGenesis 10:22 = 1 Chronicles 1:17 ᵐ5Λουδ.

2 apparently a people in northeast Africa וְלוּד מּוּל תַּרְשִׁישׁIsaiah 66:19, ᵐ5Λουδ; וְל מָּרַס ׳וּפוּטEzekiel 27:10; וְלוּד וּפוּט כּוּשׁ30:5 ( + לוּב‎ q. v.), in both ᵐ5Λ(ο)υδοι; also plural לוּדִים‎ a 'son' of Misraim, Genesis 10:13 ᵐ5Λυδιειμ ("" לְהָבִים‎) = 1 Chronicles 1:11 (לוּדִי֯יםׅ‎; Jeremiah 46:9 ("" כּוּשׁ מּוּט,‎) see לוּב‎ above — On this African לוּד‎ see DiGenesis 10:13, opposed to StaJavan 5 ff. compare WMMAs.Eur.115.