Luz
luz is a proper name used for a city identified with Bethel and for a city named by a man in Hittite territory.
The term is used predominantly as the proper name of the city associated with Bethel: it is recalled as that city's earlier name, identified with Jacob's destination and experience, and used in boundary descriptions. A separate occurrence names a city built by a man who went to the land of the Hittites.
Senses in use
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City name associated with Bethel · dominant
All cited forms are tagged Noun · Proper. In Genesis 28:19 the APB renders the clause that Luz was the city's name before Bethel; Genesis 35:6 identifies Luz in the land of Canaan with Bethel, while Genesis 48:3 places Jacob's reported encounter there. In Joshua 16:2 and Joshua 18:13, the name marks points through which a border passes, including the southern shoulder of Luz identified with Bethel; Judges 1:23 again calls it the city's former name.
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Name given to a newly built city · rare
In Judges 1:26, the Noun · Proper form occurs in the clause where a man goes to the land of the Hittites, builds a city, and names it Luz. The verse presents this as the city's continuing name.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as a city or place name, often alongside Bethel: as its earlier name in Genesis 28:19 and Judges 1:23, as an identification with Bethel in Genesis 35:6 and Joshua 18:13, and as a border location in Joshua 16:2. In Judges 1:26 it is the name assigned to a city; these are verse-level renderings rather than word alignment.