Lexical Definition

‎אֲהָלִים‎ ʼăhâlîym (a-haw-leem') aloe ^H:N-F
or (feminine) אֲהָלוֹת ʼăhâlôwth (a-haw-loth') (only used thus in the plural); of foreign origin

(tree of lign-) aloes.

• aloe wood (i.e. sticks)

1) aloes, aloe tree
1a) aloe tree
1b) aloe (perfume)

See Greek: ἀλόη

Brown-Driver-Briggs

III. [‎אהל‎] noun [masculine] odorific tree, aloe (?) (? loan-word from Sanskrit aguru, agaru, dialect aghil, compare Wilson^{Skr. Dict}.; M. Müller in Pusey^{Dan 2d ed. p. 647 f}; aloÎxylon agallochum (compare Sigismund^{Aromata, Leipz. 1884, p. 38 f,} MV cite Kondracki^{Beitr. z. Kenntn. d. Aloe, Dorpat 1874 &} Baer^{Reden III, 293 f}); others aloe succotrina (Schenkel^BL, compare Di ad Num 24:6); Wetzst in De^{Song 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 Num 24:6 (|| ‎ארזים‎ perhaps error for ‎אֵילִים‎ compare Di.

2. aloes, as sweet-smelling; perfume for bed, ‎אֲהָלִים‎ Prov 7:17 (|| ‎מֹר‎, ‎קִנָּמוֺן‎); for garments ‎אֲהָלוֺת‎ Ps 45:9* (|| ‎מֹר‎, ‎קְצִיעוֺת‎); of bride, under figure of odorific tree Song 4:14 (|| ‎מֹר‎, ‎כָּלרָֿאשֵׁי בְשָׂמִים‎).

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