What Does The Name Luz Mean?

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What Does The Name Luz Mean?

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Luz is a used as a name, especially a feminine name. This name has a Spanish and Latin origin. It is pronounced as 'Loos' or 'Looz'. In Spanish, Luz means 'light'. This name was taken from 'Nuestra Senora de la Luz'. This was the title given to Virgin Mary. It means 'Our Lady of Light'. Thus, the name Luz means 'light'. This name has a bright aura to it.

In Armenian, the girl name Luz means 'moon'. In Bible, Luz is mentioned as a name of Bethel town. The meaning of Luz could also be 'almond wood'. Luz has three variant names. They are as folloes: Luzelena, Luzette and Luziana. According to the United States Census for 1990, Luz was also among the popular surnames.

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The name Luz, generally pronounced as Looz, is derived from the Spanish and Latin language, and means "Light".

Luz was also the initial name of a royal Canaanite city, which was attached with Bethel. Quiet a few scholars debate on the fact that Luz and Bethel represented one and the same town, the first one being a Canannite name and the latter one being a Hebrew name. Canaan basically was the ancient term for a region approximating to the modern day Israel and the West bank and Gaza.

The Hebrew Bible links Canaan with Lebanon mainly with the coastal city of Sidon, but stretches the "Land of Canaan" southward across Gaza to the "Brook of Egypt". Quiet a few Canaanite spots have been unearthed by archaeologists, the most famous one being the Canaanite settlement of Ugarit.