Lexicon elaia: an olive (the tree or the fruit) Original Word: ἐλαία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: elaia Phonetic Spelling: (el-ah'-yah) Short Definition: an olive tree Definition: an olive tree; the Mount of Olives. HELPS word-Studies 1636 elaía – an olive tree (collectively, the Mount of Olives); (figuratively) the people of God, indwelt by the Holy Spirit (the fulfillment/antitype of oil in Scripture). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionan olive (the tree or the fruit) NASB Translationolive tree (2), olive trees (1), olives (10).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1636: ἐλαίαἐλαία, ἐλαίας, ἡ (from Homer down), the Sept. for זַיִת; 1. an olive tree: Romans 11:17, 24; plural Revelation 11:4. τό 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 iv. 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.
Strong's olive or berry tree. Feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary; an olive (the tree or the fruit) -- olive (berry, tree). |
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