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Easton's Bible Dictionary - Gimzo

Gimzo [N] [H] [S]

a place fertile in sycamores, a city in the plain of Judah, the villages of which were seized by the Philistines ( 2 Chronicles 28:18 ). It is now called Jimzu, about 3 miles south-east of Ludd, i.e., Lydda.

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M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
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Bibliography Information

Easton, Matthew George. "Entry for Gimzo". "Easton's Bible Dictionary". .

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Gimzo

Gimzo [N] [E] [S]

that bulrush
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names. Public Domain. Copy freely.
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[S] indicates this entry was also found in Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bibliography Information

Hitchcock, Roswell D. "Entry for 'Gimzo'". "An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names". . New York, N.Y., 1869.

Smith's Bible Dictionary - Gimzo

Gimzo [N] [E] [H]

(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.

[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
[E] indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary
[H] indicates this entry was also found in Hitchcock's Bible Names
Bibliography Information

Smith, William, Dr. "Entry for 'Gimzo'". "Smith's Bible Dictionary". . 1901.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gimzo

GIMZO

gim'-zo (gimzo; Gamzo):

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).

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'GIMZO'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.