Almond
לוּזStrong’s H3869luz
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Luz is the Hebrew word usually translated “almond”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.”
Meaning
- Almond tree, almond wood
How it's translated
- and almond 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
לוּז luz · almond
almond tree, almond wood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “almond” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'MOND, noun
- The fruit of the almond tree; an ovate, compressed nut, perforated in the pores.
- The tonsils, two glands near the basis of the tongue, are called almonds, from their resemblance to that nut; vulgularly, but improperly, called the almonds of the ears, as they belong to the throat.
- In Portugal, a measure by which wine is sold, twenty-six of which make a pipe.
- Among lapidaries, almonds signify pieces of rock crystal, used in adorning branch candlesticks, so called from their resemblance to this fruit.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.