G1636: ἐλαία
elaía · “olive tree”
Definition
an olive (the tree or the fruit)
KJV translates it as: olive (berry, tree)
Word origin: feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary;
Extended definition
(Attic, ἐλάα), -ας, ἡ [in LXX for זַיִת ;]
1. an olive tree: Rom.11:17, 24, Rev.11:4; τ. ὄρος τῶν ἐ. (זַיִת הַר, Zec.14:4), the Mount of Olives: Mat.21:1 24:3 26:30, Mrk.11:1 13:3 14:26, Luk.19:37 22:39; τὸ καλούμενον ἐ. (T, ἐλαιών, which see), Luk.19:29 21:37.
2. an olive (Aristoph.): Jas.3:12.†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G1636 is translated
- olive tree ×1
- olive tree? ×1
- olives ×1
- olive trees ×1
Bible verses with G1636 (elaía)
Elaía appears in 4 verses.
- 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 fatness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:24
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
- James 3:12
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
- Revelation 11:4
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.