King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H174
Transliteration: ahalim
Phonetic Spelling: (a-haw-leem')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the aloe (a tree)
Meaning: the aloe (a tree)
Word Summary
ahalim: the aloe (a tree)
Original Word: אֲהָלִיםTransliteration: ahalim
Phonetic Spelling: (a-haw-leem')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the aloe (a tree)
Meaning: the aloe (a tree)
Strong's Concordance
tree of aloes Or (feminine) ahalowth {a-haw-loth'} (only used thus in the plural); of foreign origin; aloe wood (i.e. Sticks) -- (tree of lign-) aloes.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H174. ahalim
III. [אהל] noun [masculine] odorific tree, aloe (?) (? loan-word from Sanskrit aguru, agaru, dialect aghil, compare WilsonSkr. Dict.; M. Müller in PuseyDaniel 2d ed. p. 647 f; aloÎxylon agallochum (compare SigismundAromata, Leipz. 1884, p. 38 f, MV cite KondrackiBeitr. z. Kenntn. d. Aloe, Dorpat 1874 & BaerReden III, 293 f); others aloe succotrina (SchenkelBL, compare Di ad Numbers 24:6); Wetzst in DeSong of Solomon 2d ed. 167 brings under I. אהל; he proposes cardamum, Arabic from = little tents, from three-cornered shape of capsules)
1 plural אֲהָלִים trees planted by ׳י Numbers 24:6 ("" ארזים perhaps error for אֵילִים compare Di.
2 aloes, as sweet-smelling; perfume for bed, אֲהָלִים Proverbs 7:17 ("" קִנָּמוֺן מֹר,); for garments אֲהָלוֺת Psalm 45:9 ("" קְצִיעוֺת מֹר,); of bride, under figure of odorific tree Song of Solomon 4:14 ("" בְשָׂמִים כָּלרָֿאשֵׁי מֹר,).