Gimzo

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.

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 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Chronicles 28:18

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 2 Chronicles 28:18

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).

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).