Greek noun (feminine) · G1636
ἐλαία
elaiael-ah'-yah
an olive tree; an olive
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: elaía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1636is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1636
an olive (the tree or the fruit)
The King James renders it: olive (berry, tree).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
elaia is rendered "an olive tree; an olive". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "an olive tree".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 11:17Now 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,
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
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,
Romans 11:17ἐλαίας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Romans.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: an olive tree, and an olive.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an olive treeRom.11:17, 24, Rev.11:4; τ. ὄρος τῶν ἐ. (זַיִת הַר, Zec.14:4), the Mount of Olives | Tagged as
| WhereZechariah 14:4On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem… |
| an oliveAristoph.): Jas.3:12.† (AS | Tagged as
| WhereJames 3:12My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔλαιον | elaion | olive oil | Uses11 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐλαίας2
- ἐλαίᾳ;¶1
- ἐλαῖαι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
Romans
two uses
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,
- ἐλαίαςelaiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: olive tree
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!
- ἐλαίᾳ;¶elaianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: olive tree
James
one use
My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
- ἐλαίαςelaiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: olives
Revelation
one use
These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
- ἐλαῖαιelaiainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: olive trees
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.