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Lexicon :: Strong's G1636 - elaia

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ἐλαία
Transliteration
elaia (Key)
Pronunciation
el-ah'-yah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐλαία elaía, el-ah'-yah; feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary; an olive (the tree or the fruit):—olive (berry, tree).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G1636 in the following manner: olives (11x), olive tree (3x), olive berries (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G1636 in the following manner: olives (11x), olive tree (3x), olive berries (1x).

  1. an olive tree

  2. an olive, the fruit of an olive tree

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλαία elaía, el-ah'-yah; feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary; an olive (the tree or the fruit):—olive (berry, tree).
STRONGS G1636:
ἐλαία, -ας, ἡ [from Homer down], Sept. for זַיִת;
1. an olive tree: Romans 11:17, 24; plural Revelation 11:4. τὸ ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν (for הַזֵּיתִים הַר, Zechariah 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 4:354f; [Grove and Porter in BB. DD.]): Matthew 21:1; Matthew 24:3; Matthew 26:30; Mark 11:1; Mark 13:3; Mark 14:26; Luke 19:37; Luke 22:39; John 8:1 Rec.; (on Luke 19:29; Luke 21:37, see ἐλαιῶν).
2. an olive, the fruit of the olive-tree: James 3:12.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Zechariah
14:4
Matthew
21:1; 24:3; 26:30
Mark
11:1; 13:3; 14:26
Luke
19:29; 19:37; 21:37; 22:39
John
8:1
Romans
11:17; 11:24
James
3:12
Revelation
11:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1636 matches the Greek ἐλαία (elaia),
which occurs 26 times in 24 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and thou shalt not anoint thee with oil, because thine olive shall utterly [fn]cast its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8 - The trees [fn]went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive, Reign over us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - But the olive said to them, Shall I leave my fatness, with which men shall glorify God, and go to be [fn]promoted over the trees?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and [fn]olives.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - And all his servants passed on by his [fn]side, and every Chelethite, and every Phelethite, and they stood by the olive tree in the wilderness: and all the people marched near him, and all his court, and all the men of might, and all the men of war, six hundred: and they were present at his side: and every Chelethite, and every Phelethite, and all the six hundred Gittites that came on foot out of Geth, and [fn]they went on before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, ascending and weeping, and had his head covered, and went barefooted: and all the people that were with him covered every man his head; and they went up, ascending and weeping.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and remove you to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil, and honey, and ye shall live and not die: and do not ye hearken to Ezekias, for he deceives you, saying, The Lord shall deliver you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive-yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - and that they should sound with trumpets in all their cities, and in Jerusalem. And Esdras said, Go forth to the mountain, and bring branches of olive, and branches of cypress trees, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palm trees, and branches of every thick tree, to make booths, according to that which was written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - (LXX 51:10) But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - (LXX 127:3) Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - (LXX 14:7) His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt press the olive, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and shalt make wine, but ye shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - and two olive-trees above it, one on the right of the bowl, and one on the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - And I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive-trees, which are on the right and left hand of the candlestick?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And I asked the second time, and said to him, What are the two branches of the olive-trees that are by the side of the two golden [fn]pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil funnels?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.
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