ἐλαία
elaia
“olive tree”
Definition
an olive (the tree or the fruit)
feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
ἐλαία appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
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