Lexical Summary
elaión: Olive oil
Original Word: ἔλαιον
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: elaión
Pronunciation: eh-LAH-yon
Phonetic Spelling: (el-ah-yone')
KJV: Olivet
NASB: Olivet
Word Origin: [from G1636 (ἐλαῖα - olives)]
1. an olive-orchard
2. (specially) the Mount of Olives
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Olivet.
From elaia; an olive-orchard, i.e. (specially) the Mount of Olives -- Olivet.
see GREEK elaia
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 1638 elaiṓn (from 1636elaia, "an olive tree") – properly, the place of olive trees (an olive orchard), referring to the Mount of Olives (J. Thayer) – the mountain-ridge that runs parallel to Jerusalem and separated from it by the Kidron Valley.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
elaiaDefinitionan olive orchard, i.e. spec. the Mt. of Olives
NASB TranslationOlivet (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1638: ἐλαιῶνἐλαιῶν,
Ἐλαιῶνος,
ὁ (the ending
ὤν in derivative nouns indicating a place set with trees of the kind designated by the primitive, as
δαφνων,
ἰτεων,
δρυμῶν κέδρων, cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 422ff: Kühner, i., p. 711; (
Jelf, § 335 d.));
an olive-orchard, a place planted with olive trees, i. e. the Mount of Olives (
A. V. Olivet) (see
ἐλαία, 1):
Acts 1:12 (
διά τοῦ Ἐλαιῶνος ὄρους,
Josephus, Antiquities 7, 9, 2). In
Luke 19:29;
Luke 21:37 also we should write
τό ὄρος τό καλούμενον ἐλαιῶν (so
L T Tr (but
WH with
R G ἐλααιων)); likewise in
Josephus, Antiquities 20, 8, 6
πρός ὄρος τό προσαγορευόμενον ἐλαιῶν;
b. j. 2, 13, 5 and 5, 2, 3
εἰς (
κατά)
ἐλαιῶν καλούμενον ὄρος; 6, 2, 8
κατά τό ἐλαιῶν ὄρος; (but in
Josephus the passages cited; Bekker editions,
ἐλαιῶν). Cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 794f;
Buttmann, 22 (19f);
Winers Grammar, 182 (171) n. 1; (but see
WHs Appendix, p. 158b). (The
Sept. sometimes render
זַיִת freely by
ἐλαιῶν, as
Exodus 23:11;
Deuteronomy 6:11;
1 Samuel 8:14, etc.; not found in Greek writings.)
