Hypertext Webster Gateway: "almug"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Almug
(1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr. 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.
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.
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