H1579

גִּמְזוֹ

gim.zoN:N--L

Gimzo

§ Gimzo = "fertile in sycamores" a town in Judah south of the road between Jerusalem and Joppa which with its dependant villages was captured by the Philistines in the reign of Ahaz

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

גִּמְזוֺ proper name, of a location (compare Syriac (Lexicons) sycamore; Arabic is loan-word Frä¹⁴⁰; compare Assyrian proper name, of a location Gamuzanu Pinches^{Hebraica. July, 1886, 222}), city of Judah toward Philistines 2Chr 28:18 modern Jimzu, east from Lydda Rob^{BR ii. 249} Bd^{Pal 21}.

1 occurrence

II Chronicles 28:18