noun · feminine

elaiōnas

GreekἘλαιῶν (elaiōn)

Strong’sG1638

Olive-grove, Olive-yard, the mount Olivet

stem elaiōn-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

olives2×

What it means

† ἐλαιών, -ῶνος, ὁ

(< ἐλαία), [in LXX for זַיִת;]

olive-grove, olive-garden (so in FlJ and in π.; Deiss., BS, 209 ff.; MM, Exp., iii; M, Pr., 49, 69, 235): Lk 19:29 21:37 (WH, -ῶν; v. their App., 158; Field, Notes, 73; Bl., § 10, 5; 33, 1; Thayer, s.v.), Ac 1:12 (where Bl, ll. c., proposes the conjectural emendation ἐλαιῶν for -ῶνος).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1638 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidel-ah-yone'

an olive-orchard, i.e. (specially) the Mount of Olives

Fromfrom G1636;

King JamesOlivet.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	elaiōnas	elaiōnais
object accusative	elaiōnan	elaiōnain
direct address vocative	elaiōnar	elaiōnair
of, belonging to genitive	elaiōnau	elaiōnaiu2×Ἐλαιῶν
to, for dative	elaiōna	elaiōnai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

elaiōnstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

elaiōna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

elaiōnos — ἐλαιών, Olive-grove, Olive-yard, the mount Olivet

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

elaiōnaiu“olives”of, belonging togenitive plural2×

Luke 19:29“olives”Kai gineta hōs engizata eis Bēthfagē kai Bēthanian pros tem orem tem kalirōtem Elaiōnaiu, apostelata duo toiu mathētoiuAs He approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His disciples,

Luke 21:37“olives”Ate de tain hēmerain en te hiere didaskarōtos, tain de nuxain exercherōtos aulizete eis tem orem tem kalirōtem Elaiōnaiu;Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.