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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 Box Gen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - The dove came to him toward [fn]evening, and behold, in her [fn]beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - “You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8 - “Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness with [fn]which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - When he had set fire to the torches, he released [fn]the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - Now all his servants passed on beside him, all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come [fn]with him from Gath, passed on before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - And David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went, and his head was covered and he walked barefoot. Then all the people who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping as they went.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - “Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - [fn]So they proclaimed and circulated a proclamation in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and [fn]wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - “He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
[fn]Within your house,
Your children like olive plants
Around your table.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Yet gleanings will be left in it like the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
As the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,
As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - His shoots will [fn]sprout,
And his [fn]beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - “You will sow but you will not reap.
You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil;
And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no [fn]fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive should fail
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock should be cut off from the fold
And there be no cattle in the stalls,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - ‘Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And I answered the second time and said to him, “What are the two olive [fn]branches which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.
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