* Send me also.
1Ki 5:6
* algum trees. or, algummim.
Called in the parallel passage, by a transposition of letters,
{almuggim,} or "almug-trees;" which is rendered by the
Vulgate, {ligna thyina,} the thya or lignum vit(9120)wood.
Theophrastus say that "the thyon of thya tree grows near the
temple of Jupiter Ammon (in Africa), and in the Cyrenaica;
that it resembles the cypress in its boughs, leaves, stalk,
and fruit; and that its wood (from its close texture) never
rots." The LXX. render here [peukina;] and Josephus calls it
[xyla peukina,] torch or pine-trees; but cautions us against
supposing that the wood was like what was known in his time by
that name; for these "were to the sight like the wood of the
fig-tree, but more white and shining." The Syriac version has
{kaiso dekee-sotho,} probably cypress wood; and Dr. Shaw
supposes it denotes the cypress. Several critics understand
it to mean gummy wood; and Celsius queries whether it may not
be the sandal-tree, as the Rabbins and Dr. Geddes suppose.
1Ki 10:11
* almug-trees.
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