Judges 1:26
Who being sent away, went into the land of Hethim, and built there a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui dimissus, abiit in terram Hetthim, et ædificavit ibi civitatem, vocavitque eam Luzam : quæ ita appellatur usque in præsentem diem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ ἀνὴρ εἰς γῆν Χεττείν, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ πόλιν καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς Λοῦζα. τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ הָאִ֔ישׁ אֶ֖רֶץ הַחִתִּ֑ים וַיִּ֣בֶן עִ֗יר וַיִּקְרָ֤א שְׁמָהּ֙ ל֔וּז ה֣וּא שְׁמָ֔הּ עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Hetthim. The Hethite lived towards the south of Chanaan. The man probably retired into the stony Arabia, where we find the city of Lusa or Elysa. (Ptolemy v. 16.)
He gave it this name in memory of his native city, (Calmet) which was called Luza, or "of nuts." (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.