Dictionaries :: Gimzo

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Gimzo:

a place fertile in sycamores, a city in the plain of Judah, the villages of which were seized by the Philistines (2Ch 28:18). It is now called Jimzu, about 3 miles south-east of Ludd, i.e., Lydda.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gimzo:

that bulrush

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Gimzo:

gim'-zo (gimzo; Gamzo): A town of Judah on the border of the Philistine plain, captured by the Philistines in the days of Ahaz (2Ch 28:18). It is the modern Jimzu, a small mud village about 3 1/2 miles Southeast of Ludd (Lydda), on the old mule road from there to Jerusalem (Robinson, BR, II, 248-49;. SWP, Il, 297).

Nave's Topical Bible

Gimzo: A City of Judah

2Ch 28:18

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Gimzo:

(fertile in sycamores) a town which with its dependent villages was taken possession of by the Philistines in the reign of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18). The name (Jimzu) still remains attached to a large village between two and three miles southwest of Lydda, south of the road between Jerusalem and Jaffa.