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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
GIMZO.A town on the border of Philistia (2Ch_28:18). It is the modern Jimzû near Aijalon.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Taken with its dependent villages by the Philistines under Ahaz (2Ch_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.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Gim'zo. (fertile in Sycamores). A town which, with its dependent villages, was taken possession of by the Philistines, in the reign of Ahaz. 2Ch_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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
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 (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).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Gimzo
(Heb. Gimzo', גַּמְזוֹ, a place fertile in sycamores; 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 (2Ch_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).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.