Places of the Bible
Gimzo
City
What the spade found
Gimzo is generally identified with Tel Gimzo, a tell — a mound raised by one settlement built on the ruins of the last. It has been surveyed but not excavated, and at its largest covered 9 hectares.
Occupation shows in 9 dated phases: Early Bronze Age IB, Early Bronze Age II, Early Bronze Age III, Iron Age I, Iron Age II, Iron Age III (Persian), Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine.
The excavation is from the survey dataset From Villages to Empires (Zanoni and others, 2025), used under CC BY 4.0. The identification is the one modern scholarship settles on, compiled by OpenBible.info from over seventy works, also under CC BY 4.0. Identifying a mound with a biblical name is a scholarly judgement, and for some places it is still debated.
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.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- 2 Chronicles
- 28:18
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.