Gimzo

Easton's Bible Dictionary

2 Chronicles 28:18

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Taken with its dependent villages by the Philistines under Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18). N.W. of Judah, or in Dan; now Jimzu, a large village on a height surrounded by trees, S. of the road between Jerusalem and Jaffa, where the highlands sink down into the maritime plain.

Holman Bible Dictionary

2 Chronicles 28:18

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

GIMZO . A town on the border of Philistia ( 2 Chronicles 28:18 ). It is the modern Jimzû near Aijalon.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City captured by the Philistines in the time of Ahaz. 2 Chronicles 28:18 . Identified with Jimzu , 31 56' N, 34 56' E .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

gim´zō ( גּמזו , gimzō  ; Γαμζῶ , Gamzō̇ ): A town of Judah on the border of the Philistine plain, captured by the Philistines in the days of Ahaz ( 2 Chronicles 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).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Gimzo', גַּמְזוֹ, a place fertile in syc amores; Sept. Γιμζώ v.r. Γαμαιζαί ), a city is the plain of the kingdom of Judah, mentioned in connection with Timnah, and taken, with its dependent villages (Heb. daughters), by the Philistines in the time of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18); now Jimzu, a common and rather large village, on an eminence, on the south side of the road, about an hour south-east of Ludd (Lydda or Ramleb); with many threshing-floors and ancient cisterns used as magazines for grain (Robinson's Researches, 3:56). It is mentioned in the Talmud (Schwarz, Palest. page 136).