III. [אהל] noun [masculine] odorific tree, aloe (?) (? loan-word from Sanskrit aguru, agaru, dialect aghil, compare WilsonSkr. Dict.; M. Müller in Pusey[Dan 2]d 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 [Num 24:6]); Wetzst in De[Song 2]d 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).
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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