לוּז
luz · turn aside, be devious
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3868 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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luz (לוּז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn aside, be devious”.
To turn aside, to depart from the way; figuratively, to be crooked or devious.
How to say it
luz
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To leave the straight way; hence, to be crooked and deceitful in dealings.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- slip ×2
- crookedness ×1
- devious person is ×1
- one devious ×1
- who are devious ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 2:15
whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their tracks;
- Proverbs 3:21
My son, let them not slip from your eyes; keep sound judgment and discretion;
- Proverbs 3:32
for the devious person is an abomination to YHWH, but with the upright is his intimate counsel.
- Proverbs 4:21
Let them not slip away from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
- Proverbs 14:2
Whoever walks in his uprightness fears YHWH, but one devious in his ways despises him.
- Isaiah 30:12
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you reject this word and trust in oppression and crookedness and lean on it,