Olives (Olive berries), Olive tree
Olives (Olive berries), Olive tree
denotes (a) “an olive tree,” Rom 11:17, Rom 11:24; Rev 11:4 (plural); the Mount of Olives was so called from the numerous olive trees there, and indicates the importance attached to such; the Mount is mentioned in the NT in connection only with the Lord’s life on earth, Mat 21:1; Mat 24:3; Mat 26:30; Mar 11:1; Mar 13:3; Mar 14:26; Luk 19:37; Luk 22:39; Joh 8:1; (b) “an olive,” Jam 3:12, RV (AV, “olive berries”).
“an olive grove” or “olive garden,” the ending — on, as in this class of noun, here indicates “a place set with trees of the kind designated by the primitive” (Thayer); hence it is applied to the Mount of Olives, Luk 19:29; Luk 21:37; Act 1:12 (“Olivet”): in the first two of these and in Mar 11:1, some mss. have the form of the noun as in No. 1.
“the garden olive” (from kallos, “beauty,” and No. 1), occurs in Rom 11:24, “a good olive tree.”
an adjective (from agrios, “growing in the fields, wild,” and No. 1), denoting “of the wild olive,” is used as a noun in Rom 11:17, Rom 11:24, “a wild olive tree” (RV, in the latter verse).