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Almug

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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(1 Kings 10:11,12 ) = algum (2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10,11 ), in the Hebrew occurring only in the plural Almuggim (indicating that the wood was brought in planks), the name of a wood brought from Ophir to be used in the building of the temple, and for other purposes. Some suppose it to have been the white sandal-wood of India, the Santalum album of botanists, a native of the mountainous parts of the Malabar coasts. It is a fragrant wood, and is used in China for incense in idol-worship. Others, with some probability, think that it was the Indian red sandal-wood, the pterocarpus santalinus, a heavy, fine-grained wood, the Sanscrit name of which is valguka. It is found on the Coromandel coast and in Ceylon.

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Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Almug'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ebd/​a/almug.html. 1897.
 
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