Olives and Olive Oil
The Bible mentions an alabaster flask or box or more accurately "an alabastron", a small contaner which was filled with costly spikenard (perfumed oil). Mary came to the house of Simon the leper to anoint Jesus by breaking the jar and pouring the spikenard on his head in Mark 14. In the ancient world one of the purposes for anointing the head was t...
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Its foliage is the earliest mentioned (Genesis 8:11).
Tradition from Noah's days has ever made it symbolize peace.
It is the emblem of "fatness" in the oldest parable (Judges
9:8-9). Emblem of the godly (Psalm 52:5; Psalm 52:8), in
spirit constantly dwelling "in the house of God"; in
contrast to slave-like formalists now sojourning outwardly
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And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the
mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to
rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty
works that they had seen;...
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And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and
Bethany, at the mount called [the mount] of Olives, he sent
two of his disciples,...
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Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet
wine, but shalt not drink wine....
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the
temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him
privately,...
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And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at
night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called [the
mount] of Olives....
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the fruit of the olive-tree. This tree yielded oil which was
highly valued. The best oil was from olives that were
plucked
before being fully ripe, and then beaten or squeezed
(Deut.
24:20; Isa. 17:6; 24:13). It was called "beaten," or
"fresh oil"
(Ex. 27:20). There were also oil-presses, in which the
oil was
trodden out by the feet (Micah...
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And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into
the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the
shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and]
olives....
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The olive was among the most abundant and characteristic
vegetation of Judea. The olive tree grows freely almost
everywhere on the shores of the Mediterranean, but it was
peculiarly abundant in Israel. See De 6:11; 8:8; 28:40
Oliveyards are a matter of course in descriptions of the
country like vines and cornfields. Jud 15:5; 1Sa 8:14 The
kin...
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