ἐλαία
elaía · G1636 · Greek · 15 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 places
Meanings
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Olea europaea
An olive tree
ExamplesMatthew 21:1 When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples,
Matthew 24:3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
Matthew 26:30 And after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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Mount of Olives
A ridge to the east of Jerusalem, with the Kidron Valley in between
ExamplesMatthew 21:1 When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples,
Matthew 24:3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
Matthew 26:30 And after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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olive
Fruit of the olive tree; about 2 cm. long and a bit more than a cm thick with a hard stone inside and a soft skin that covers the oily flesh; used for food and oil for cooking, for lamps, for rubbing on the body, for medicine, and in religion (anointing)
ExamplesJames 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- δύοtwo 1
- ἴδιοςone’s own 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἵστημιto stand, to set 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πιότηςfatness 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- καλλιέλαιος kalliélaios · G2565 · cultivated olive tree
- The target term denotes the olive tree generally, while καλλιέλαιος specifically denotes the cultivated variety of olive tree. This is a genuine general-to-specific botanical relationship: the cultivated olive is one particular kind of the tree the target names more broadly.
In the other Testament 1 word
- זַיִת zayith · H2132 · olive tree
- Direct Hebrew-to-Greek translation equivalent for 'olive' (both the tree and the fruit); ἐλαία (elaía, G1636) ἐλαία is the standard LXX rendering of זַיִת (zayith, H2132) זַיִת across all contexts.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Olive3.39
- Used in James 3:12, where James asks rhetorically whether a fig tree can produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs, illustrating that a source cannot produce what is contrary to its nature.
- Olive tree3.9
- Used in Romans 11:17 and 11:24, in Paul's extended metaphor of the wild olive branches being grafted into the cultivated olive tree, representing the ingrafting of the Gentiles among the people of God.
- Mount of Olives93.616
- Used in Matthew 21:1, where Jesus and His disciples approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, before His triumphal entry.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root ἐλαία
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐλαίας, ἡ (from Homer down), the Sept. for זַיִת; 1. an olive tree: Rom 11:17, Rom 11:24;…
1. an olive tree: Rom 11:17, Rom 11:24; plural Rev 11:4. τό ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν (for הַזֵּיתִים הַר, Zech 14:4), the Mount of Olives, so called from the multitude of olive-trees which grew upon it, distant from Jerusalem (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 8, 6) five stadia eastward (cf. Winers RWB, under the word Oelberg; Arnold in Herzog x., p. 549ff; Furrer in Schenkel iv. 354f; (Grove and Porter in BB. DD.)): Mt 21:1; Mt 24:3; Mt 26:30; Mk 11:1; Mk 13:3; Mk 14:26; Lk 19:37; Lk 22:39; Jn 8:1 Rec.; (on Lk 19:29; Lk 21:37, see ἐλαιῶν).
2. an olive, the fruit of the olive-tree: Jas 3:12.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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