Lexicon agrielaios: of the wild olive Original Word: ἀγριέλαιος, ου, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: agrielaios Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ree-el'-ah-yos) Short Definition: a wild olive tree Definition: a wild olive tree, oleaster. HELPS word-Studies 65 agriélaios (from 66 /ágrios, "wild, uncultivated" and 1636 /elaía, "olive tree") – properly, a wild (uncultivated) olive tree. [The Jews are the natural, cultivated branches in Scripture; believing NT Gentiles are represented as the wild, uncultivated branches.] 65 /agriélaios ("wild olive") occurs twice in the NT (Ro 11:17,24) – both times of "the nations" (believing Gentiles) as now part of the one people of God. See also 1484 /éthnos ("Gentile") and 2565 /kalliélaios ("a cultivated olive tree"). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom agrios and elaiaDefinitionof the wild olive NASB Translationwhat (1), wild olive (1), wild olive tree (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 65: ἀγριέλαιοςἀγριέλαιος, ( ἄγριος and ἔλαιος or ἐλαία, like ἀγριάμπελος); 1. of or belonging to the oleaster, or wild olive (σκυτάλην ἀγριέλαιον, Anthol. 9, 237, 4; (cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 376)); spoken of a scion, Romans 11:17. 2. As a substantive ἡ ἀγριέλαιος the oleaster, the wild olive; (opposed to καλλιέλαιος (cf. Aristotle, plant. 1, 6)), also called by the Greeks κότινος, Romans 11:24; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii. 495ff (See B. D. under the word , and Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, under the word Olive. The latter says, p. 377, 'the wild olive must not he confounded with the Oleaster or Oil-tree'.)
Strong's wild olive tree. From agrios and elaia; an oleaster -- olive tree (which is) wild. see GREEK agrios see GREEK elaia |
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