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Almug

אַלְמֻגִּיםStrong’s H0484

almuggim (al-mug-gim)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Almuggim is the Hebrew word usually translated “almug”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.”
1 Kings 10:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. A tree from Lebanon, almug trees (sandalwood?), almug wood
How it's translated
  • almug 2
  • the almug 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 2

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

אַלְמֻגִּים almuggim · almug

a tree from Lebanon, almug trees (sandalwood?), almug wood

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “almug” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

AL'MUG, noun

In scripture a tree or wood.

    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.