Olive Trees
is frequently mentioned in Scripture. The dove from the ark
brought an olive-branch to Noah (Gen. 8:11). It is
mentioned
among the most notable trees of Israel, where it was
cultivated long before the time of the Hebrews
(Deut. 6:11;
8:8). It is mentioned in the first Old Testament
parable, that
of Jotham (Judg. 9:9), and is named among the...
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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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ol'-iv tre (zayith, a word occurring also in Aramaic,
Ethiopic and Arabic; in the last it means "olive oil," and
zaitun, "the olive tree"; elaia):
1. The Olive Tree:
The olive tree has all through history been one of the most
characteristic, most valued and most useful of trees in
Israel. It is only right that it is the first named "king"
of t...
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For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive
tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
[branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?...
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The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled
fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken....
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His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the
olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon....
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These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks
standing before the God of the earth....
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And houses full of all good [things], which thou filledst not,
and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive
trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten
and be full;...
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But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I
trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever....
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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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