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algum |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Almug \Al"mug\, Algum \Al"gum\, n. [Heb., perh. borrowed fr Skr. valguka sandalwood.] (Script.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii 8; 1 K. x. 11). Note: Most writers at the present day follow Celsius, who takes it to be the red sandalwood of China and the Indian Archipelago. --W. Smith. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Algum \Al"gum\, n. Same as {Almug} (and etymologically preferable). --2 Chron. ii 8. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Algum (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10,11), the same as almug (1 Kings 10:11).
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