Lexical Summary elaia: an olive (the tree or the fruit) Original Word: ἐλαίαTransliteration: elaia Phonetic Spelling: (el-ah'-yah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: an olive (the tree or the fruit) Meaning: an olive (the tree or the fruit) Strong's Concordance olive or berry tree. Feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary; an olive (the tree or the fruit) -- olive (berry, tree). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1636: ἐλαίαἐλαία, ἐλαίας, ἡ (from Homer down), the Sept. for זַיִת; 1. an olive tree: Romans 11:17, 24; plural Revelation 11:4. τό 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 iv. 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. |
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