Olive-tree
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Is frequently mentioned in Scripture. The dove from the ark brought an olive-branch to Noah (Genesis 8:11). It is mentioned among the most notable trees of Palestine, where it was cultivated long before the time of the Hebrews (Deuteronomy 6:11; 8:8). It is mentioned in the first Old Testament parable, that of Jotham (Judges 9:9), and is named among the blessings of the "good land," and is at the present day the one characteristic tree of Palestine. The oldest olive-trees in the country are those which are enclosed in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is referred to as an emblem of prosperity and beauty and religious privilege (Psalm 52:8; Jeremiah 11:16; Hosea 14:6). The two "witnesses" mentioned in Revelation 11:4 are spoken of as "two olive trees standing before the God of the earth." (Comp. Zechariah 4:3, 11-14.)

The "olive-tree, wild by nature" (Romans 11:24), is the shoot or cutting of the good olive-tree which, left ungrafted, grows up to be a "wild olive." In Romans 11:17 Paul refers to the practice of grafting shoots of the wild olive into a "good" olive which has become unfruitful. By such a process the sap of the good olive, by pervading the branch which is "graffed in," makes it a good branch, bearing good olives. Thus the Gentiles, being a "wild olive," but now "graffed in," yield fruit, but only through the sap of the tree into which they have been graffed. This is a process "contrary to nature" (11:24).

Greek
2565. kallielaios -- a cultivated olive (tree)
... a cultivated olive (tree). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kallielaios
Phonetic Spelling: (kal-le-el'-ah-yos) Short Definition: a cultivated ...
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65. agrielaios -- of the wild olive
... wild olive. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: agrielaios Phonetic
Spelling: (ag-ree-el'-ah-yos) Short Definition: a wild olive tree Definition: a ...
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1636. elaia -- an olive (the tree or the fruit)
... the tree or the fruit). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: elaia Phonetic
Spelling: (el-ah'-yah) Short Definition: an olive tree Definition: an ...
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1637. elaion -- olive oil
... oil. Cognate: 1637 -- olive (from 1636 , "olive tree"); (figuratively)
the indwelling (empowering) of the Holy Spirit. While true ...
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1638. elaion -- an olive orchard, ie spec. the Mt. of Olives
... Cognate: 1638 (from 1636, "an olive tree") -- properly, the of olive trees (an olive
orchard), referring to the Mount of Olives (J. Thayer) -- the mountain ...
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Strong's Hebrew
2132. zayith -- olive tree, olive
... 2131, 2132. zayith. 2133 . olive tree, olive. Transliteration: zayith Phonetic
Spelling: (zay'-yith) Short Definition: olive. ... olive tree Olivet. ...
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2133. Zethan -- "olive tree," a Benjamite
... 2132, 2133. Zethan. 2134 . "olive tree," a Benjamite. Transliteration: Zethan
Phonetic Spelling: (zay-thawn') Short Definition: Zethan. ...
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Library

By a Comparison Drawn from the Wild Olive-Tree, Whose Quality but ...
... Against Heresies: Book V Chapter X."By a comparison drawn from the wild olive-tree,
whose quality but not whose nature is changed by grafting, he proves more ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter x by a comparison drawn.htm

The Law of Sin with Its Guilt in Unbaptized Infants. By Adam's Sin ...
... Book I. Chapter 37 [XXXII.]"The Law of Sin with Its Guilt in Unbaptized Infants.
By Adam's Sin the Human Race Has Become a "Wild Olive Tree.". ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 37 xxxii the law of.htm

Adam's Sin is Derived from Him to Every one who is Born Even of ...
... Book II. Chapter 58."Adam's Sin is Derived from Him to Every One Who is Born Even
of Regenerate Parents; The Example of the Olive Tree and the Wild Olive. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 58 adams sin is derived.htm

Faustus Argues that if the Apostles Born under the Old Covenant ...
... But the apostle himself says that the Jews, who would not believe in Christ, were
branches broken off, and that the Gentiles, a wild olive tree, were grafted ...
/.../faustus argues that if the.htm

Salvation to the Jews
... Paul likens the remnant in Israel to a noble olive tree, some of whose
branches have been broken off. He compares the Gentiles to ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 35 salvation to the.htm

First Catechetical Lecture of Our Holy Father Cyril,
... Thou art transplanted henceforth among the spiritual [477] olive-trees, being grafted
from the wild into the good olive-tree [478] , from sins into ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/first catechetical lecture of our.htm

(On the Mysteries. Ii. )
... ye were anointed with exorcised oil [2400] , from the very hairs of your head to
your feet, and were made partakers of the good olive-tree, Jesus Christ. ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xx on the mysteries.htm

John Chapter xix. 17-22.
... For this reason, because it was the wild olive tree that was made partaker of the
fatness of the olive tree, and not the olive tree that was made partaker of ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxvii john chapter xix.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xv. 21,"Jesus Went Out Thence ...
... for this reason that people did not come to Him, that is by reason of pride; and
the natural branches are said to be broken off from the olive tree, that is ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxvii on the words.htm

False Profession.
... generation of professors that, notwithstanding their profession, are wild by nature;
yea, such as were never cut out or off from the wild olive-tree, nor ever ...
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Thesaurus
Olivetree
... The "olive-tree, wild by nature" (Romans 11:24), is the shoot or cutting of the
good olive-tree which, left ungrafted, grows up to be a "wild olive." In Romans ...
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Olive-tree (17 Occurrences)
Olive-tree. Olivetree, Olive-tree. Olive-trees . Easton's Bible Dictionary ...
Olivetree, Olive-tree. Olive-trees . Reference Bible.
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Graffed (4 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and ...
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Wert (5 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and ...
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Ingrafted (5 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and ...
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Fatness (17 Occurrences)
... fat'-nes (deshen; piotes): 1. Literal: The translation of deshen (Judges 9:9, "But
the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness?"; Job 36:16 (of ...
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Grafted (4 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Graft. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. OLIVE, GRAFTED. See
OLIVETREE. Multi-Version Concordance Grafted (4 Occurrences). ...
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Wast (84 Occurrences)
... broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst
become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olivetree; (ASV YLT ...
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United (44 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural
use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural ...
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Theirs (96 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural
use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural ...
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Resources
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Olive-tree (17 Occurrences)

Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
(BBE WBS)

Romans 11:24
For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?
(BBE WBS)

Exodus 23:11
But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.
(Root in BBE DBY)

Deuteronomy 24:20
When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Deuteronomy 28:40
Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off.
(Root in JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Judges 9:8
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.
(See JPS ASV BBE WBS)

Judges 9:9
But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
(See JPS ASV BBE WBS)

2 Samuel 15:23
And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.
(BBE)

Job 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
(ASV BBE)

Psalms 52:8
But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY)

Isaiah 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, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Isaiah 24:13
For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Isaiah 41:19
I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:
(BBE)

Jeremiah 11:16
Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY)

Hosea 14:6
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive-tree shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
(DBY)

Haggai 2:19
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth; from this day will I bless you .
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Olive-tree

The Olive-Tree of Children of Pious Parents

The Olive-Tree of Christ

The Olive-Tree of the Jewish Church

The Olive-Tree of the Righteous

The Olive-Tree of the Two Witnesses

The Olive-Tree used for Making: Booths at Feast of Tabernacles

The Olive-Tree used for Making: The Cherubim in the Temple

The Olive-Tree used for Making: The Doors and Posts of the Temple

The Olive-Tree: (Gleaning of) of the Remnant of Grace

The Olive-Tree: (When Wild) the Gentiles

The Olive-Tree: Assyria Abounded In

The Olive-Tree: Bearing Goodly Fruit

The Olive-Tree: Beaten to Remove the Fruit

The Olive-Tree: Canaan Abounded In

The Olive-Tree: Cultivated in Olive Yards

The Olive-Tree: Cultivated: Among Rocks

The Olive-Tree: Cultivated: On the Sides of Mountains

The Olive-Tree: Failure of, a Great Calamity

The Olive-Tree: Fair and Beautiful

The Olive-Tree: Fat and Unctuous

The Olive-Tree: Fruit of, During Sabbatical Year Left for the Poor

The Olive-Tree: Gleaning of, Left for the Poor

The Olive-Tree: Good for the Service of God and Man

The Olive-Tree: Grafting of, Alluded To

The Olive-Tree: Green

The Olive-Tree: Kings of Israel Largely Cultivated

The Olive-Tree: Often Cast Its Flowers

The Olive-Tree: Often Cast Its Fruit

The Olive-Tree: Often Grew Wild

The Olive-Tree: Often Suffered from Caterpillars

The Olive-Tree: Oil Procured From

The Olive-Tree: Probably Origin of Its Being the Emblem of Peace

The Olive-Tree: Pruning of, Alluded To

The Olive-Tree: Shaken when Fully Ripe

The Olive-Tree: The Fruit of, Trodden in Presses to Extract the Oil

Related Terms

Olive-tree (17 Occurrences)

Graffed (4 Occurrences)

Wert (5 Occurrences)

Ingrafted (5 Occurrences)

Fatness (17 Occurrences)

Grafted (4 Occurrences)

Wast (84 Occurrences)

United (44 Occurrences)

Theirs (96 Occurrences)

Readily (22 Occurrences)

Cultivated (8 Occurrences)

Olive (61 Occurrences)

Wild (147 Occurrences)

Contrary (77 Occurrences)

Fertile (55 Occurrences)

Nature (80 Occurrences)

Leafy (22 Occurrences)

Gleanings (8 Occurrences)

Gleaning (10 Occurrences)

Grape (20 Occurrences)

Fellow-partaker (3 Occurrences)

Partakest (1 Occurrence)

Boughs (29 Occurrences)

Branching (12 Occurrences)

Amongst (47 Occurrences)

Fields (199 Occurrences)

Branches (103 Occurrences)

Rather (176 Occurrences)

Beating (31 Occurrences)

Grapes (74 Occurrences)

Field (390 Occurrences)

Cut (616 Occurrences)

Olive-trees (11 Occurrences)

Berries (3 Occurrences)

Food (2953 Occurrences)

Goodly (46 Occurrences)

Natural (49 Occurrences)

Beaten (73 Occurrences)

Tree (245 Occurrences)

Oil (281 Occurrences)

Green (72 Occurrences)

Trees (179 Occurrences)

Vintage (14 Occurrences)

Zethan (1 Occurrence)

Nourishing (3 Occurrences)

Unripe (6 Occurrences)

Unfailing (29 Occurrences)

Uppermost (11 Occurrences)

Outmost (7 Occurrences)

Orphan (25 Occurrences)

Oleaster (1 Occurrence)

Oiltree

Oil-tree (5 Occurrences)

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Olivet (4 Occurrences)

Juniper (7 Occurrences)

Grape-gleanings (1 Occurrence)

Getting-in (1 Occurrence)

Waving (23 Occurrences)

Wasteland (19 Occurrences)

Fir-tree (5 Occurrences)

Fro (54 Occurrences)

Firtree

Fir (22 Occurrences)

Flourishing (11 Occurrences)

Tree-top (1 Occurrence)

Topmost (4 Occurrences)

Richness (4 Occurrences)

Dropping (33 Occurrences)

Partaker (10 Occurrences)

Promoted (9 Occurrences)

Pruned (3 Occurrences)

Barn (6 Occurrences)

Bough (8 Occurrences)

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Confide (31 Occurrences)

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Olivetree
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