Luz or Luez.

The indestructible bone; the nucleus of the resurrection body.

“‘How doth a man revive again in the world to come?ʹ asked Hadrian; and Joshua Ben Hananiʹah made answer. ‘From luz in the backbone.ʹ He then went on to demonstrate this to him: He took the bone luz, and put it into water, but the water had no action on it; he put it in the fire, but the fire consumed it not; he placed it in a mill, but could not grind it; and laid it on an anvil, but the hammer crushed it not.”—Lightfoot.


“The learnéd rabbins of the Jews

Write there’s a bone, which they call luez


Butler: Iludibras, iii. 2.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lusus Naturæ
Lutestring
Lutetia
Luther’s Hymn
Lutherans
Lutin
Luxembergers
Luz or Luez
Lybius (Sir)
Lycaonian Tables [Lycaoniæmensæ]
Lycidas
Lycisca (half-wolf, half-dog)
Lycopodium
Lydford Law
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Lydia Languish
Lydian Poet (The)
Lying Traveller (The)

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