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Lexicon :: Strong's H2132 - zayiṯ

Aa
זַיִת
Transliteration
zayiṯ
Pronunciation
zay'-yith
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from an unused root [akin to זִו (H2099)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 548

Strong’s Definitions

זַיִת zayith, zay'-yith; probably from an unused root (akin to H2099); an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry:—olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H2132 in the following manner: olive (17x), olive tree (14x), oliveyard (6x), olivet (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H2132 in the following manner: olive (17x), olive tree (14x), oliveyard (6x), olivet (1x).
masculine noun

  1. olive, olive tree

    1. olive tree

    2. olives

      proper locative noun

  2. mountain facing Jerusalem on the east side

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זַיִת zayith, zay'-yith; probably from an unused root (akin to H2099); an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry:—olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.
STRONGS H2132: Abbreviations
† זַ֫יִת noun masculinePsalm 52:10 olive-tree, olive (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic atxyfz, זֵיתָא; Ethiopic ዘደት፡ Arabic زَيْتُونً olive-tree, olive, زَيْتً olive-oil; see LagM iii. 215 ff HomAufsätze u. Abh., 1892, 94, 99 ff.; √dubious; Thes and most derive from assumed זהה be bright, fresh, luxuriant (see below זִוּ) + ת afformative which is. then treated as radical, compare Sta§ 187 a; but this not certain, compare Ol§ 119 b, 142 a; according to LagArmen. Stud. § 1347 ז is Armen. loan-word, see also LagM l.c.; BN 219, Anm.); — absolute ז׳ Genesis 8:11, construct זֵית Deuteronomy 8:8; 2 Kings 18:32; suffix זֵיתְךָ Deuteronomy 24:20, זֵיתֶ֑ךָ Exodus 23:11; Deuteronomy 28:40; plural זֵיתִים Deuteronomy 6:11, etc.; —
1. olive-tree Judges 9:8, 9 (personified, in Jotham's fable), Hosea 14:7 (simile of beauty), Job 15:33 = (as casting off its flowers, simile of wicked man); in 2 Samuel 15:23 insert אֲשֶׁר הַזּ׳ (before הַמִּדְבָּר, read בַּמּ׳) LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Dr; also plural of two olive-trees Zechariah 4:3, 11; רַעֲנָן ז׳ Psalm 52:10 fresh, (thriving) olive-tree (simile of prosperity), so Jeremiah 11:16; עֲלֶהזֿ׳ Genesis 8:11(J) olive-branch, sprig, compare Nehemiah 8:15 (here + עֲלֵי עֵץשֶֿׁמֶן, etc.); also plural שְׁתִלֵי זֵיתִים Psalm 128:3 olive-shoots (simile of children); שִׁבֲּלֵי זֵיתִים Zechariah 4:12 olive-branches (in Zechariah's vision); זַיִת in representative or collective sense, = olive-trees, groups of growing olive-trees, as property, source of wealth, olive-yards Exodus 23:11 (J E; + כֶּרֶם), Judges 15:5 (+ id.); עֵץהַֿזַּיִת Haggai 2:19 (+ הַגֶּפֶן וְהַתְּאֵנָה וְהָרִמּוֺן); also in phrase כִּחֵשׁ מַעֲשֵׂהזַֿיִת Habakkuk 3:17 the bearing, yield, of olive-trees (|| וּשְׁדֵמוֺר לֹאעָֿשָׂה אֹכֶל, compare also תְּאֵנָה and יְבוּל גֶּפֶן Habakkuk 3:17a); specifically זֵית שֶׁמֶן, oil-yielding olive-trees Deuteronomy 8:8 compare 2 Kings 18:32; נֹקֶף ז׳ striking or beating of olive-trees Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13 (simile of desolation at judgment of י׳), compare תַחְבֹּט כִּ׳ זֵיתְךָ Deuteronomy 24:20; rather more often plural; Amos 4:9 (|| גַּנּוֺת, כְּרָמִים, תְּאֵנִים), 1 Samuel 8:14 (|| שָׂדוֺת, כְּרָמִים), compare also Deuteronomy 6:11; Deuteronomy 28:40a Joshua 24:13; 2 Kings 5:26; 1 Chronicles 27:28; Nehemiah 5:11; Nehemiah 9:25.
2. of fruit of olive-tree, olives: Deuteronomy 28:40b (with שֶׁמֶן); תִּדְרֹךְ זַיִת Micah 6:15 (|| שֶׁמֶן); also שֶׁמֶן זַיִת olive-oil Exodus 27:20; Exodus 30:24 (P) Leviticus 24:2 (H).
3. in designations of place: מַעֲלֵה הַזֵּיתִים 2 Samuel 15:30 the ascent of the olive-trees (Greek Version of the LXX ἐν τῇ ἀναβάσει τῶν ἐλαιῶν = Mount of Olives); הַרהַֿזֵּיתִים Zechariah 14:4 (twice in verse) (Greek Version of the LXXτὸ ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν); the well-known hill east of Jerusalem (NT usually as Zechariah 14:4 Greek Version of the LXX, e.g. Mark 13:3; compare also הָהָר 1 Kings 11:7; Ezekiel 11:33; Nehemiah 8:15; Targum טזּר זֵיתַיָּא 2 Kings 23:13 compare 2 Samuel 15:30; Zechariah 14:4 etc.; Targum Songs 8:5 טוּר מִשְׁחָא, and so Talmud etc.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 8:11

Exodus

23:11; 23:11; 27:20; 30:24

Leviticus

24:2

Deuteronomy

6:11; 6:11; 8:8; 8:8; 24:20; 24:20; 28:40; 28:40; 28:40

Joshua

24:13

Judges

9:8; 9:9; 15:5

1 Samuel

8:14

2 Samuel

15:23; 15:30; 15:30

1 Kings

11:7

2 Kings

5:26; 18:32; 18:32; 23:13

1 Chronicles

27:28

Nehemiah

5:11; 8:15; 8:15; 9:25

Job

15:33

Psalms

128:3

Song of Songs

8:5

Isaiah

17:6; 24:13

Jeremiah

11:16

Hosea

14:7

Amos

4:9

Micah

6:15

Habakkuk

3:17; 3:17

Haggai

2:19

Zechariah

4:3; 4:11; 4:12; 14:4; 14:4; 14:4

Mark

13:3

H2132

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Strong's Number H2132 matches the Hebrew זַיִת (zayiṯ),
which occurs 38 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20 - Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24 - And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8 - One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:14 - He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:28 - Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13 - For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:16 - You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:9 - I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.
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