Strong's H3865 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: לוּד (Lûwd)

Pronunciation: lood

Morphology: n-pr

Part of Speech: n pr m, n patr

Name Meaning: Lud or Lydia = "strife"

Derivation: probably of foreign derivation;

Definition: Lud, the name of two nations

KJV Renderings: Lud, Lydia.

Senses

1. the 4th listed son of Shem and supposed progenitor of the Lydians
2. descendants of Lud the son of Shem who settled in northern Africa

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.