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     # 1Ki 5:6|
     * algum trees.  or, algummim.
       Called in the parallel passage, by a transposition of letters,
       {almuggim,} or "almug-trees;" which is rendered by the
       Vulgate, {ligna thyina,} the thya or lignum vit(9120)wood.
       Theophrastus say that "the thyon of thya tree grows near the
       temple of Jupiter Ammon (in Africa), and in the Cyrenaica;
       that it resembles the cypress in its boughs, leaves, stalk,
       and fruit; and that its wood (from its close texture) never
       rots."  The LXX. render here [peukina;] and Josephus calls it
       [xyla peukina,] torch or pine-trees; but cautions us against
       supposing that the wood was like what was known in his time by
       that name; for these "were to the sight like the wood of the
       fig-tree, but more white and shining."  The Syriac version has
       {kaiso dekee-sotho,} probably cypress wood; and Dr. Shaw
       supposes it denotes the cypress.  Several critics understand
       it to mean gummy wood; and Celsius queries whether it may not
       be the sandal-tree, as the Rabbins and Dr. Geddes suppose.

     # 1Ki 10:11|
     * almug-trees.