Lexicon elaión: an olive orchard, i.e. spec. the Mt. of Olives Original Word: Ἐλαιών, ῶνος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: elaión Phonetic Spelling: (el-ah-yone') Short Definition: Olive-grove, Olive-yard, the mount Olivet Definition: Olive-grove, Olive-yard, the mount Olivet. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1638 elaiṓn (from 1636elaia, "an olive tree") – properly, the place of olive trees (an olive orchard), referring to the Mount of Olives (J. Thayer) – the mountain-ridge that runs parallel to Jerusalem and separated from it by the Kidron Valley. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom elaiaDefinitionan olive orchard, i.e. spec. the Mt. of Olives NASB TranslationOlivet (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1638: ἐλαιῶνἐλαιῶν, Ἐλαιῶνος, ὁ (the ending ὤν in derivative nouns indicating a place set with trees of the kind designated by the primitive, as δαφνων, ἰτεων, δρυμῶν κέδρων, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 422ff: Kühner, i., p. 711; ( Jelf, § 335 d.)); an olive-orchard, a place planted with olive trees, i. e. the Mount of Olives ( A. V. Olivet) (see ἐλαία, 1): Acts 1:12 ( διά τοῦ Ἐλαιῶνος ὄρους, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 9, 2). In Luke 19:29; Luke 21:37 also we should write τό ὄρος τό καλούμενον ἐλαιῶν (so L T Tr (but WH with R G ἐλααιων)); likewise in Josephus, Antiquities 20, 8, 6 πρός ὄρος τό προσαγορευόμενον ἐλαιῶν; b. j. 2, 13, 5 and 5, 2, 3 εἰς ( κατά) ἐλαιῶν καλούμενον ὄρος; 6, 2, 8 κατά τό ἐλαιῶν ὄρος; (but in Josephus the passages cited; Bekker editions, ἐλαιῶν). Cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 794f; Buttmann, 22 (19f); Winers Grammar, 182 (171) n. 1; (but see WHs Appendix, p. 158b). (The Sept. sometimes render זַיִת freely by ἐλαιῶν, as Exodus 23:11; Deuteronomy 6:11; 1 Samuel 8:14, etc.; not found in Greek writings.)
Strong's Olivet. From elaia; an olive-orchard, i.e. (specially) the Mount of Olives -- Olivet. see GREEK elaia |
