zayit · olive

What it means

zayit (זַיִת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “olive”.

Tree; olive.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A tree with silvery leaves that yields fruit and oil; very common in Israel.
2. The small fruit of that tree, from which oil is pressed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• olive ×12
• olive trees ×11
• olive tree ×10
• Olives ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×5

• Genesis 8:11

  And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and leave it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the animals of the field may eat. So you shall do with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Exodus 27:20

  And you shall command the sons of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil, beaten, for the light, to make burn a lamp continually.

• Exodus 30:24

  and of cassia five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.

• Leviticus 24:2

  “Command the sons of Israel to bring you pure oil of olives, beaten, for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

• Deuteronomy 6:11

  houses full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant— and you eat and are satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 8:8

  a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees for oil and of honey;

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the branches after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but with oil you will not anoint yourself, for your olives will drop off.

• Joshua 24:13

  And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built, and you live in them; of vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant you are eating.’

• Judges 9:8

  The trees went out to anoint over themselves a king, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

• Judges 9:9

  But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I give up my fatness, by which through me Elohim and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’

• Judges 15:5

  He set fire to the torches and let them loose into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up from the stacked grain to the standing grain and to the olive groves.

• 1 Samuel 8:14

  Your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves, the best ones, he will take and give to his servants.

• 2 Samuel 15:30

  David was going up the ascent of the Olives, weeping as he went up, with his head covered, and he was walking barefoot; and all the people who were with him covered, each his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

• 2 Kings 5:26

  He said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when a man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to take silver and to take clothes, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, male slaves and female slaves?

• 2 Kings 18:32

  until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees of oil and honey, so that you may live and not die.” And do not listen to Hezekiah, for he incites you, saying, “YHWH will deliver us.”

• 1 Chronicles 27:28

  over the olive trees and the sycamores that were in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash;

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Return, please, to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, and the hundredth of the silver, the grain, the new wine, and the oil that you are lending them.”

• Nehemiah 8:15

  and that they should make it heard and pass a proclamation through all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, and branches of oil tree, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Job 15:33

  He will violently tear off, like the vine, his unripe grapes, and cast off, like the olive tree, his blossom.

• Psalms 52:8

  But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of Elohim; I trust in the loyal love of Elohim forever and ever.

• Psalms 128:3

  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house; your children like shoots of olive trees around your table.

• Isaiah 17:6

  And there will be left in it gleanings, as when beating an olive tree: two, three olives at the top of the highest branch, four, five on its fruitful branches, declares YHWH, Elohim of Israel.

• Isaiah 24:13

  For thus it will be in the middle of the earth, among the peoples: like the beating of an olive tree, like the gleanings when the grape harvest is finished.

• Jeremiah 11:16

  A flourishing olive tree, beautiful in fruit and in form, YHWH called your name; with the noise of a great roar he has set fire to it, and its branches are broken.

• Hosea 14:6

  His shoots will spread out, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

• Amos 4:9

  I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the cutting locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

• Micah 6:15

  You will sow but not reap; you will tread the olive but not anoint yourself with oil; and tread the new wine, but not drink the wine.

• Habakkuk 3:17

  Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

• Haggai 2:19

  Is the seed still in the barn? And even the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. From this day I will bless.”

• Zechariah 4:3

  And two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and one on its left.”

• Zechariah 4:11

  And I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?”

• Zechariah 4:12

  And I answered a second time and said to him, “What are the two branches of the olive trees that are beside the two golden tubes that empty out of themselves the gold?”

• Zechariah 14:4

  And his feet will stand on that day on the Mount of Olives, which is facing Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle toward the east and toward the west, making a very great valley; and half of the mountain will move toward the north, and its other half toward the south.

And 2 more times.