Bible Dictionary

Gimzo

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.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(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.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & 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).

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

that bulrush