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Lexicon :: Strong's H2132 - zayiṯ

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זַיִת
Transliteration
zayiṯ
Pronunciation
zay'-yith
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from an unused root [akin to זִו (H2099)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 548

Strong’s Definitions

זַיִת zayith, zay'-yith; probably from an unused root (akin to H2099); an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry:—olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H2132 in the following manner: olive (17x), olive tree (14x), oliveyard (6x), olivet (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H2132 in the following manner: olive (17x), olive tree (14x), oliveyard (6x), olivet (1x).
masculine noun

  1. olive, olive tree

    1. olive tree

    2. olives

      proper locative noun

  2. mountain facing Jerusalem on the east side

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זַיִת zayith, zay'-yith; probably from an unused root (akin to H2099); an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry:—olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.
STRONGS H2132: Abbreviations
† זַ֫יִת noun masculinePsalm 52:10 olive-tree, olive (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic atxyfz, זֵיתָא; Ethiopic ዘደት፡ Arabic زَيْتُونً olive-tree, olive, زَيْتً olive-oil; see LagM iii. 215 ff HomAufsätze u. Abh., 1892, 94, 99 ff.; √dubious; Thes and most derive from assumed זהה be bright, fresh, luxuriant (see below זִוּ) + ת afformative which is. then treated as radical, compare Sta§ 187 a; but this not certain, compare Ol§ 119 b, 142 a; according to LagArmen. Stud. § 1347 ז is Armen. loan-word, see also LagM l.c.; BN 219, Anm.); — absolute ז׳ Genesis 8:11, construct זֵית Deuteronomy 8:8; 2 Kings 18:32; suffix זֵיתְךָ Deuteronomy 24:20, זֵיתֶ֑ךָ Exodus 23:11; Deuteronomy 28:40; plural זֵיתִים Deuteronomy 6:11, etc.; —
1. olive-tree Judges 9:8, 9 (personified, in Jotham's fable), Hosea 14:7 (simile of beauty), Job 15:33 = (as casting off its flowers, simile of wicked man); in 2 Samuel 15:23 insert אֲשֶׁר הַזּ׳ (before הַמִּדְבָּר, read בַּמּ׳) LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Dr; also plural of two olive-trees Zechariah 4:3, 11; רַעֲנָן ז׳ Psalm 52:10 fresh, (thriving) olive-tree (simile of prosperity), so Jeremiah 11:16; עֲלֶהזֿ׳ Genesis 8:11(J) olive-branch, sprig, compare Nehemiah 8:15 (here + עֲלֵי עֵץשֶֿׁמֶן, etc.); also plural שְׁתִלֵי זֵיתִים Psalm 128:3 olive-shoots (simile of children); שִׁבֲּלֵי זֵיתִים Zechariah 4:12 olive-branches (in Zechariah's vision); זַיִת in representative or collective sense, = olive-trees, groups of growing olive-trees, as property, source of wealth, olive-yards Exodus 23:11 (J E; + כֶּרֶם), Judges 15:5 (+ id.); עֵץהַֿזַּיִת Haggai 2:19 (+ הַגֶּפֶן וְהַתְּאֵנָה וְהָרִמּוֺן); also in phrase כִּחֵשׁ מַעֲשֵׂהזַֿיִת Habakkuk 3:17 the bearing, yield, of olive-trees (|| וּשְׁדֵמוֺר לֹאעָֿשָׂה אֹכֶל, compare also תְּאֵנָה and יְבוּל גֶּפֶן Habakkuk 3:17a); specifically זֵית שֶׁמֶן, oil-yielding olive-trees Deuteronomy 8:8 compare 2 Kings 18:32; נֹקֶף ז׳ striking or beating of olive-trees Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13 (simile of desolation at judgment of י׳), compare תַחְבֹּט כִּ׳ זֵיתְךָ Deuteronomy 24:20; rather more often plural; Amos 4:9 (|| גַּנּוֺת, כְּרָמִים, תְּאֵנִים), 1 Samuel 8:14 (|| שָׂדוֺת, כְּרָמִים), compare also Deuteronomy 6:11; Deuteronomy 28:40a Joshua 24:13; 2 Kings 5:26; 1 Chronicles 27:28; Nehemiah 5:11; Nehemiah 9:25.
2. of fruit of olive-tree, olives: Deuteronomy 28:40b (with שֶׁמֶן); תִּדְרֹךְ זַיִת Micah 6:15 (|| שֶׁמֶן); also שֶׁמֶן זַיִת olive-oil Exodus 27:20; Exodus 30:24 (P) Leviticus 24:2 (H).
3. in designations of place: מַעֲלֵה הַזֵּיתִים 2 Samuel 15:30 the ascent of the olive-trees (Greek Version of the LXX ἐν τῇ ἀναβάσει τῶν ἐλαιῶν = Mount of Olives); הַרהַֿזֵּיתִים Zechariah 14:4 (twice in verse) (Greek Version of the LXXτὸ ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν); the well-known hill east of Jerusalem (NT usually as Zechariah 14:4 Greek Version of the LXX, e.g. Mark 13:3; compare also הָהָר 1 Kings 11:7; Ezekiel 11:33; Nehemiah 8:15; Targum טזּר זֵיתַיָּא 2 Kings 23:13 compare 2 Samuel 15:30; Zechariah 14:4 etc.; Targum Songs 8:5 טוּר מִשְׁחָא, and so Talmud etc.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 8:11

Exodus

23:11; 23:11; 27:20; 30:24

Leviticus

24:2

Deuteronomy

6:11; 6:11; 8:8; 8:8; 24:20; 24:20; 28:40; 28:40; 28:40

Joshua

24:13

Judges

9:8; 9:9; 15:5

1 Samuel

8:14

2 Samuel

15:23; 15:30; 15:30

1 Kings

11:7

2 Kings

5:26; 18:32; 18:32; 23:13

1 Chronicles

27:28

Nehemiah

5:11; 8:15; 8:15; 9:25

Job

15:33

Psalms

128:3

Song of Songs

8:5

Isaiah

17:6; 24:13

Jeremiah

11:16

Hosea

14:7

Amos

4:9

Micah

6:15

Habakkuk

3:17; 3:17

Haggai

2:19

Zechariah

4:3; 4:11; 4:12; 14:4; 14:4; 14:4

Mark

13:3

H2132

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Strong's Number H2132 matches the Hebrew זַיִת (zayiṯ),
which occurs 38 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20 - "You shall command the children of Yisra'el, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24 - and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:2 - "Command the children of Yisra'el, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Pelishtim, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:14 - He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?

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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 of honey, that you may live, and not die: and don't listen to Hizkiyahu, when he persuades you, saying, the LORD will deliver us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:28 - and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Ba`al-Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Yo'ash:

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Please restore to them, even this 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 exact of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Yerushalayim, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - They took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as 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 God's house. I trust in God's lovingkindness forever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of 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 there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - For thus shall it be in the midst of the eretz among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:16 - The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - His branches will spread, And his beauty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like Levanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:9 - I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; And your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming arbeh devoured: Yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; And crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, Nor fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive fails, The fields yield no food; The flocks are cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls:

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
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