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Gezer

American  
[gee-zer] / ˈgi zər /

noun

  1. an ancient Canaanite town, NW of Jerusalem.


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Many Christian families Gezer knew as a child have left the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Ultimately, this new dataset provides an independent source of absolute dates that will allow researchers to better understand the events at Gezer and to place them in a regional perspective.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

However, we have strong archaeological evidence for some of his other public works projects, such as the three-thousand-year-old gates discovered at Gezer, Hazor, and Megiddo.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Deniz Gezer, internal medicine specialist at Mersin City Hospital, said one of the biggest problems for survival was the cold.

From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2023

Malchiel, the colleague of Labai in his attack upon Gezer, as afterwards upon Ebed-Tob of Jerusalem, does not appear to have been of Beduin origin.

From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)