A large primate with a long tail and dog-like face, that lives mostly on the ground and eats plants and small animals.
About Baboon
In Africa Asia and Europe two of the primate families are the monkeys Cercopithecidae which have tails and the true apes Pongidae which have no tails. All of the evidence from ancient Egypt and the ancient Middle East indicates that monkeys and baboons were known but there is no reference at all in literature or art to apes without tails. Thus the English translation apes (which in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries referred to any kind of non-human primate) is probably not the best term in modern English despite the fact that all English translations use this word."
Key References
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
All Scripture References (2)
1 Kings (1)
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles (1)
For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.