Strong's #484: 'almuggiym (pronounced al-moog-gheem')

probably of foreign derivation (used thus only in the plural); almug (i.e. probably sandle-wood) sticks:--almug trees. Compare 418.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'almuggiym

1) a tree from Lebanon, almug trees (sandalwood?), almug wood

Part of Speech: noun masculine plural

Relation: probably of foreign derivation (used only in the plural)

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

1 Kings 10:11: "brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious"
1 Kings 10:12: "And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD,"
1 Kings 10:12: "there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto"