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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 - When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:40

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8 - "The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, 'Be our king!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - But the olive tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - He lit the torches and set the jackals loose in the Philistines' standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - All his servants were leaving with him, along with all the Kerethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites - some six hundred men who had come on foot from Gath. They were leaving with the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you to a land just like your own - a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, "The LORD will rescue us."

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil."

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem: "Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I continually trust in God's loyal love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten - two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches," says the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - This is what will happen throughout the earth, among the nations. It will be like when they beat an olive tree, and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - The seed is still in the storehouse, isn't it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left."

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - Next I asked the messenger, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the menorah?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - Before he could reply I asked again, "What are these two extensions of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which lies to the east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, leaving a great valley. Half the mountain will move northward and the other half southward.
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