Olive
16 references
- (A fruit tree)
- Branch of, brought by the dove to Noah's ark Gen. 8:11
- Common to the land of Canaan Exod. 23:11; Deut. 6:11; 8:8
- Israelites commanded to cultivate in the land of promise Deut. 28:40
- Branches of, used for booths (huts) Neh. 8:15
- Bears flowers Job 15:33
- Precepts concerning gleaning the fruit of Deut. 24:20; Isa. 17:6
- The cherubs made of the wood of 1 Kgs. 6:23,31-33
- Fable of Judg. 9:8
- FIGURATIVE
- Of prosperity Ps. 128:3
- The wild, a figure of the Gentiles; the cultivated, of the Jews Rom. 11:17-21,24
- SYMBOLICAL Zech. 4:2-12; Rev. 11:4
- FRUIT OF
- Oil extracted from, used as illuminating oil in the tabernacle Exod. 39:37; Lev. 24:2; Zech. 4:12
- See Oil
From Nave's Topical Bible (1896). Public domain.