(anc. geog.), a city of Samaria, on the borders of the tribe of Benjamin, anciently called Luz, (Moses); but they seem to be distinguished, (Joshua xvi. 2.). They were, however, contiguous places. Bethel was properly the place of Jacob's vision; and Luz, or Lus, an adjoining town, afterwards called Rethel, the former name being lost in that of Bethel. It was twelve miles to the north-east of Jerusalem, (Jerome); and called Bethaven, (Hosea).