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THE DICTIONARY — Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

(1.) The fourth son of Shem (Genesis 10:22; 1 Chronicles 1:17), ancestor of the Lydians probably. (2.) One of the Hamitic tribes descended from Mizraim (Genesis 10:13), a people of Africa (Ezekiel 27:10; 30:5), on the west of Egypt. The people called Lud were noted archers (Isaiah 66: 19; comp. Jeremiah 46:9).

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