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LOD

(Heb. lōḏ) (also LYDDA)

A city (modern Lod/el-Ludd; 140151) 18 km. (11 mi.) SE of Joppa on the Wadi el-Kabir, near the border of the Sharon Plain; also known in the NT as Lydda. An inscription of Thutmose III at Karnak (15th century b.c.) refers to the city as an Egyptian holding. Benjaminites, the “sons of Elpaal,” rebuilt the city (1 Chr. 8:12), but an early association with Dan and Ephraim is possible. Lod, Hadid, and Ono provided an ancestral homeland for 725 (Ezra 2:2) or 721 (Neh. 7:37) returning exiles.

Jonathan Maccabeus captured Lod from Demetrius Nicanor in 145 b.c. and named it Lydda (1 Macc. 11:34). Later the site was named Diospolis and became a center of Jewish studies.

Stephen Von Wyrick







Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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