Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
Were brought from the same countries which supplied ivory and peacocks (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chron. 9:21).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
The ape is not indigenous to Palestine; they were brought in the days of Solomon, with gold, silver, ivory and peacocks by the ships of Tarshish. The word goph may signify any of the monkey tribe. (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chron. 9:21).
Barbary Ape
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
or qoph {kofe}; probably of foreign origin; a monkey
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