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(Mount of) Olives

זַ֫יִתStrong’s H2132

zayit (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.”
Zechariah 4:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. This name means olive, olive tree
  2. Olive, olive treeolive tree · olives
  3. 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
All 36 verses, by book
Genesis 1
8:11
Leviticus 1
24:2
Deuteronomy 4
6:118:824:2028:40
Joshua 1
24:13
Judges 3
9:89:915:5
1 Samuel 1
8:14
2 Samuel 1
15:30
2 Kings 2
5:2618:32
1 Chronicles 1
27:28
Nehemiah 3
5:118:159:25
Job 1
15:33
Psalms 2
52:8128:3
Isaiah 2
17:624:13
Jeremiah 1
11:16
Hosea 1
14:6
Amos 1
4:9
Micah 1
6:15
Habakkuk 1
3:17
Haggai 1
2:19
Zechariah 4
4:34:114:1214:4
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.