1 Kings 10:22
large merchant ships .............. port <08659> [Tharshish.]
[Tarshish. ivory. or, elephant's teeth.]
apes <06971> [apes.]
{Kophim,} rather monkeys, the same as the Syriac [qwp',] Greek [kephos,] [kepos,] or [kebos,] and Roman {Cephus,} which animal both Pliny and Solinus inform us was brought from Ethiopia. The same name appears in the monkeys, called {KEIIIEN} in the Pr‘nestine Pavement, and in the French {cep} or {ceb.}
peacocks <08500> [peacocks.]
1 Kings 10:29
600 .......... 150 <08337 03967> [for six hundred.]
This was the ordinary price of a chariot, as 150 shekels was that of a horse. It seems that neither horses nor chariots came out of Egypt but by means of Solomon's servants.
kings ........ kings <04428> [the kings.]
sold <03027> [their means. Heb. their hand.]
