(Mount of) Olives
זַ֫יִתStrong’s H2132zayit (za-yit)
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zayit is the Hebrew word usually translated “olive”, “olive trees” and “olive tree”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.”
Meaning
- This name means olive, olive tree
- Olive, olive treeolive tree · olives
- Mountain facing Jerusalem on the east side
How it's translated
- olive 6
- and olive trees 4
- the olive trees 4
- olive trees 3
- an olive tree 3
- olive tree of 2
- olive tree 2
- like olive tree 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
- Zechariah 4
- Exodus 3
- Judges 3
- Nehemiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 4:11In contextThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
- Zechariah 4:12In contextAnd I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
- Zechariah 14:4In contextAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
- Genesis 8:11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Exodus 23:11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
- Exodus 27:20And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
All 36 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
זַ֫יִת zayit · (Mount of) Olives
This name means olive, olive tree Also named: elaiōn (ἐλαιών "Olivet" G1638)
זַ֫יִת zayit · olive
1) olive, olive tree 1a) olive tree 1b) olives 2) mountain facing Jerusalem on the east side
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “olive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OL'IVE, noun
[Latin oliva, from olea, an olive tree; Gr. See Oil]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.