STRONGS NUMBER H3869


Word Summary
luz: almond tree, almond wood
Original Word: לוּז
Transliteration: luz
Phonetic Spelling: (looz)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: almond tree, almond wood
Meaning: some kind of nuttree, the almond
Strong's Concordance
hazel

Probably of foreign origin; some kind of nut-tree, perhaps the almond -- hazel.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3869. luz

I. לוּזnoun [masculine] almond-tree, almond-wood (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לוּזָא‎, almond (LöwNo. 319), whence Arabic as loan-word (Frä145 LagBN 157 f.), Ethiopic ); — Genesis 30:37 (J; + לַח עַרְמוֺן לִבְנֶה,‎) of rods stripped by Jacob.