单词 | almug tree |
释义 | > as lemmasalmug tree More fully almug tree. A tree mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. 2:8, 1 Kings 10:11), said to have been brought as timber from Ophir and used for building and making musical instruments.Variously identified with (amongst others) a kind of juniper, Juniperus phoenicea, the Mediterranean cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, and the red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinum (now considered less likely: see note at etymology). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > unidentified or variously identified > [noun] > mythical or biblical almug1539 teil1568 goose-tree1597 cerbas1605 heaven-tree1835 heaven-plant1865 α. β. 1578 Bible (Geneva) 2 Chron. ii. 8 Send mee also cedar trees, firre trees, and Algummim trees.1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. ii. 8 Algume trees. View more context for this quotation1873 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (ed. 7) I. 232 The algum-tree..is supposed to be the sandal-wood-tree..One of the numerous names for this tree in Sanscrit is valguka. This valguka, which points back to a more original form valgu, might easily have been corrupted by Phœnician and Jewish sailors into algum, a form, as we know, still further corrupted, at least in one passage of the O.T., to almug. Sandal-wood is found indigenous in India only, and there chiefly on the coast of Malabar.1909 Palestine Explor. Fund Q. Statem. Oct. 274 The suggestion that sandal wood is intended is rendered very doubtful by the fact that algum trees are also noticed..as coming ‘out of Lebanon’.2004 H. Lockyer All Music of Bible 46 In Solomon's time they were made from the algum tree, which is sometimes identified with sandalwood.1539 Bible (Great) 3 Kings x. f.liii/1 The kynge made of ye Almuge trees, pillers for ye house of the Lorde. 1561 Bible (Geneva) 1 Kings x. 12 And the King made of the Almuggim trees pillers for the house of the Lord. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings x. 11 The nauie also of Hiram..brought in from Ophir, great plentie of Almug trees . View more context for this quotation 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xviii. §2. 497 The Almaggim trees brought from Ophir. 1672 Philos. Trans. 1671 (Royal Soc.) 6 3074 He shews out of Josephus..what is meant by the Almyggim Wood..namely, the Indian Pine. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Critics have long disputed about the nature and kind of the almug-tree. 1843 Bentley's Misc. Mar. 253 Malyagar, or black sandal-wood.., is used by Hindoos solely for religious purposes... I consider it to be the almug of the Hebrew. 1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom ii. 94 He sat below an almug tree. 1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 248 On the..Zambesi a Pterocarpus, a kind of almug, is used largely for boat-building. 1929 Music & Lett. 10 113 The whole body with its natural wood—perhaps of almug or red-sandal from India—in the upper part and thin silver plates covering the lower part must have formed, with its gold and inlay, an instrument worthy of a queen's court. 1994 Moneyclips (Nexis) 2 May Solomon used the almug wood to build places of worship, his own palace. < as lemmas |
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