Algum
אַלְגּוּמִּיםStrong’s H0418algummim (al-gum-mim)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Algummim is the Hebrew word usually translated “algum”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,”
Meaning
- A tree (from Lebanon), algum trees
How it's translated
- and algum 1
- algum 1
- the algum 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 9:10And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
- 2 Chronicles 9:11And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
Hebrew dictionary
אַלְגּוּמִּים algummim · algum
a tree (from Lebanon), algum trees
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “algum” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'GUM, noun
In scripture, a tree or wood about which the learned are not agreed. The most probably conjecture is that the word denotes gummy or resinous wood in general.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.