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Strong's G1636 ἐλαία (elaia)

elaia - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1636 — garmi (“Garmite”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1636
Language Greek
Linked Usages 43
Books 24

Strong's G1636 Quick Answer

Strong's G1636 ἐλαῖα (elaia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. elaia (el-ai`-ah) n. 1. an olive (the tree or the fruit) [feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary] It has 43 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include olive. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
elaia (el-ai`-ah) n. 1. an olive (the tree or the fruit) [feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary]
Usage
43 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
olive

Meaning and Definition

elaia (el-ai`-ah) n. 1. an olive (the tree or the fruit) [feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary] KJV: olive (berry, tree)

Original Word
ἐλαῖα
Transliteration
elaia
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1636. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

olive tree

Usage: ἐλαία (Attic, ἐλάα), -ας, ἡ [in LXX for זַיִת ;] __1. an olive tree: Rom.11:17, 24, Rev.11:4; τ. ὄρος τῶν ἐ. (זַיִת הַר, Zec.14:4), the Mount of Olives: Mat.21:1 24:3 26:30, Mrk.11:1 13:3 14:26, Luk.19:37 22:39; τὸ καλούμενον ἐ. (T, ἐλαιών, which see), Luk.19:29 21:37. __2. an olive (Aristoph.): Jas.3:12.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1636 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render elaia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

olive Romans 11:17

How Strong's G1636 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 24 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1636 (ἐλαῖα) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1636 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1636 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 21:1 KJV

And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

Matthew 24:3 KJV

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Matthew 26:30 KJV

And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Strong's G1636 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

24 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 8:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noah knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

Deuteronomy 8:8 Septuagint / Brenton

a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Deuteronomy 28:40 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and thou shalt not anoint thee with oil, because thine olive shall utterly cast its fruit.

Strong's G1636 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 15:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And they put a garland of olive upon her and her maid that was with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.

Wisdom of Sirach 24:14 Septuagint / Brenton

I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore, And as a rose plant in Jericho, As a fair olive tree in a plain, And grew up as a plane tree.

Wisdom of Sirach 50:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And as a fair olive tree budding forth fruit, And as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds.

Strong's G1636 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 10:19 Septuagint / Brenton

be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield

Usage Excerpts

First 43 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1636.

Genesis 8:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noah knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.
Deuteronomy 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Deuteronomy 28:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and thou shalt not anoint thee with oil, because thine olive shall utterly cast its fruit.
Judges 9:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive, Reign over us.
Judges 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the olive said to them, Shall I leave my fatness, with which men shall glorify God, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges 15:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and everything was burned from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
2 Kingdoms 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all his servants passed on by his side, and every Cherethite, and every Pelethite, and they stood by the olive tree in the wilderness: and all the people marched near him, and all his court, and all the men of might, and all the men of war, six hundred: and they were present at his side: and every Cherethite, and every Pelethite, and all the six hundred Gittites that came on foot out of Gath, and they went on before the king.
2 Kingdoms 15:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, ascending and weeping, and had his head covered, and went barefooted: and all the people that were with him covered every man his head; and they went up, ascending and weeping.
4 Kingdoms 18:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
until I come and remove you to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil, and honey, and ye shall live and not die: and do not ye hearken to Hezekiah, for he deceives you, saying, The Lord shall deliver you.
Nehemiah 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
Job 15:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, And let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
Psalms 51:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God Forever, even for evermore.
Psalms 127:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine On the sides of thy house: Thy children as young olive plants Round about thy table.
Isaiah 17:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 24:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,
Hosea 14:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Lebanon.
Micah 6:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt press the olive, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and shalt make wine, but ye shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.
Habakkuk 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, And there shall be no produce on the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall produce no food: The sheep have failed from the pasture, And there are no oxen at the cribs;
Haggai 2:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.
Zechariah 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and two olive trees above it, one on the right of the bowl, and one on the left.
Zechariah 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive trees, which are on the right and left hand of the candlestick?
Zechariah 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I asked the second time, and said to him, What are the two branches of the olive trees that are by the side of the two golden pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil funnels?
Zechariah 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.
Matthew 21:1 New Testament, KJV
And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
Matthew 24:3 New Testament, KJV
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Matthew 26:30 New Testament, KJV
And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
Mark 11:1 New Testament, KJV
And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
Mark 13:3 New Testament, KJV
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
Mark 14:26 New Testament, KJV
And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
Luke 19:29 New Testament, KJV
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,
Luke 19:37 New Testament, KJV
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;
Luke 21:37 New Testament, KJV
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.
Luke 22:39 New Testament, KJV
And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
John 8:1 New Testament, KJV
Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
Romans 11:17 New Testament, KJV
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:24 New Testament, KJV
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
James 3:12 New Testament, KJV
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Revelation 11:4 New Testament, KJV
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Judith 15:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And they put a garland of olive upon her and her maid that was with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.
Wisdom of Sirach 24:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore, And as a rose plant in Jericho, As a fair olive tree in a plain, And grew up as a plane tree.
Wisdom of Sirach 50:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And as a fair olive tree budding forth fruit, And as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds.
1 Enoch 10:19 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1636, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 3 usages, New Testament
Luke 4 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G1636 FAQ

What does elaia (ἐλαία) mean?

Strong's G1636 is a Greek entry for G1636 ἐλαῖα (elaia). elaia (el-ai`-ah) n. 1. an olive (the tree or the fruit) [feminine of a presumed derivative from an obsolete primary]

How many times is elaia (ἐλαία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 43 linked usages for Strong's G1636 across 24 books.

Where can I study elaia (ἐλαία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1636 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate elaia (ἐλαία)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as olive. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1636 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 24 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1636, with linked reader references where each row is available.