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Lexicon :: Strong's G1636 - elaia

Aa
ἐλαία
Transliteration
elaia (Key)
Pronunciation
el-ah'-yah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐλαία elaía, el-ah'-yah; feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary; an olive (the tree or the fruit):—olive (berry, tree).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G1636 in the following manner: olives (11x), olive tree (3x), olive berries (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G1636 in the following manner: olives (11x), olive tree (3x), olive berries (1x).

  1. an olive tree

  2. an olive, the fruit of an olive tree

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλαία elaía, el-ah'-yah; feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary; an olive (the tree or the fruit):—olive (berry, tree).
STRONGS G1636:
ἐλαία, -ας, ἡ [from Homer down], Sept. for זַיִת;
1. an olive tree: Romans 11:17, 24; plural Revelation 11:4. τὸ ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν (for הַזֵּיתִים הַר, Zechariah 14:4), the Mount of Olives, so called from the multitude of olive-trees which grew upon it, distant from Jerusalem (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 8, 6) five stadia eastward (cf. Winers RWB, under the word Oelberg; Arnold in Herzog x., p. 549ff; Furrer in Schenkel 4:354f; [Grove and Porter in BB. DD.]): Matthew 21:1; Matthew 24:3; Matthew 26:30; Mark 11:1; Mark 13:3; Mark 14:26; Luke 19:37; Luke 22:39; John 8:1 Rec.; (on Luke 19:29; Luke 21:37, see ἐλαιῶν).
2. an olive, the fruit of the olive-tree: James 3:12.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Zechariah
14:4
Matthew
21:1; 24:3; 26:30
Mark
11:1; 13:3; 14:26
Luke
19:29; 19:37; 21:37; 22:39
John
8:1
Romans
11:17; 11:24
James
3:12
Revelation
11:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1636 matches the Greek ἐλαία (elaia),
which occurs 26 times in 24 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people that were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 -
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 -
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine,
In the innermost parts of thy house;
Thy children like olive plants,
Round about thy table.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 -
For though the fig-tree shall not flourish,
Neither shall fruit be in the vines;
The labor of the olive 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:3 - and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And I answered the second time, and said unto him, What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of themselves?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
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