noun · feminine
elaiōnas
Strong’sG1638
Olive-grove, Olive-yard, the mount Olivet
stem elaiōn-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ἐλαιών, -ῶνος, ὁ
(< ἐλαία), [in LXX for זַיִת;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
olive-yard, LXX+3rd c.BC+
II the Mount of Olives, Olivet, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| 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
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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
elaiōnaiu“olives”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Luke 19:29… Bēthanian pros tem orem tem kalorōntem Elaiōnaiu, apostelata duo toiu mathētoiu… and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His …
Luke 21:37… aulizote eis tem orem tem kalorōntem Elaiōnaiu;… the night on the Mount of Olives.