gimzo Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
gimzo in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a place fertile in sycamores, a city in the plain of Judah, the villages of which were seized by the Philistines (2 Chr. 28:18). It is now called Jimzu, about 3 miles south-east of Ludd, i.e., Lydda.
gimzo in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(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.
gimzo in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
GIM'ZO (fertile in sycamores), a town in the plain of Judah; taken by the Philistines, 2 Chr 28:18; now Jimzu, a village about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Ludd (Lydda).
gimzo in 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.