APE (קﯴף, H7761, ape all Eng VSS, 1 Kings 10:22). This word appears only in the list of cargo brought to Solomon from either E Africa or India, and the tr. “ape” is given qualified acceptance generally. Apes (more correctly monkeys) from the former would prob. be baboons or vervet monkeys; from the latter, one of the Macaques, of which the E has several common species. No monkeys seem to have been native to Pal. within recent geological periods. The nearest today is the sacred, or hamadryad, baboon of the Arabian coast: this was once found in Egypt, where it was sacred.