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# אַלְמֻגִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H484

**almug** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

almug [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/484/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַלְמֻגִּים: pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/484/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. id. עֲצֵי אַלְמֻגִּים 1 K 10:11, 12 (fr. Ophir); ע׳ הָא׳ 1 K 10:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of almug(s) (2); the almug(s) (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 10:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.11/#tree)

וְגַם֙ אֳנִ֣י חִירָ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־נָשָׂ֥א זָהָ֖ב מֵאוֹפִ֑יר הֵבִ֨יא מֵאֹפִ֜יר עֲצֵ֧י אַלְמֻגִּ֛ים הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹ֖ד וְאֶ֥בֶן יְקָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and also the.ship\[s\] of.Hiram which it.carried gold from Ophir it.brought from Ophir wood(s) of.almug(s) much very and stone\[s\] precious

*JPS 1917:* And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of sandal-wood and precious stones.

[1 Kings 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.12/#tree)

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ אֶת־עֲצֵ֨י הָאַלְמֻגִּ֜ים מִסְעָ֤ד לְבֵית־יְהוָה֙ וּלְבֵ֣ית הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְכִנֹּר֥וֹת וּנְבָלִ֖ים לַשָּׁרִ֑ים לֹ֣א בָֽא־כֵ֞ן עֲצֵ֤י אַלְמֻגִּים֙ וְלֹ֣א נִרְאָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.made the king (et) the.wood(s) of the.almug(s) support\[s\] for the.house of.Yahweh and for the.house of the.king and harps and lyres for the singers not it.has.come thus wood(s) of.almug(s) and not it.has.been.seen until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* And the king made of the sandal-wood pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers; there came no such sandal-wood, nor was seen, unto this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/484.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/484/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).