Olive

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(A fruit tree)

Branch of, brought by the dove to Noah's ark

• Genesis 8:11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Common to the land of Canaan

• Exodus 23:11 but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.
• Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
• Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Israelites commanded to cultivate in the land of promise

• Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

Branches of, used for booths (huts)

• Nehemiah 8:15 and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

Bears flowers

• Job 15:33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

Precepts concerning gleaning the fruit of

• Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
• Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

The cherubs made of the wood of

• 1 Kings 6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
• 1 Kings 6:31–33 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts. The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold. In the same way he made f…

Fable of

• Judges 9:8 One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Figurative

Of prosperity

• Psalm 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

The wild, a figure of the Gentiles; the cultivated, of the Jews

• Romans 11:17–21 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branch…
• Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

Symbolical

• Zechariah 4:2–12 “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps. There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.” “What are these, my lord?” I asked the angel…
• Revelation 11:4 These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

Fruit of

Oil extracted from, used as illuminating oil in the tabernacle

• Exodus 39:37 the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;
• Leviticus 24:2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
• Zechariah 4:12 And I questioned him further, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?”

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