Word Summary
elaion: olive oil
Original Word: ἔλαιονTransliteration: elaion
Phonetic Spelling: (el'-ah-yon)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: olive oil
Meaning: olive oil
Strong's Concordance
oil.
Neuter of the same as elaia; olive oil -- oil.
see GREEK elaia
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1637: ἔλαιονἔλαιον,
ἐλαίου,
τό (from
Homer down), the
Sept. chiefly for
שֶׁמֶן, also for
יִצְהָר;
olive-oil: used for feeding lamps,
Matthew 25:3f, 8; for healing the sick,
Mark 6:13;
Luke 10:34;
James 5:14; for anointing the head and body at feasts (
Athen. 15, c. 11) (cf. under the word
μύρον),
Luke 7:46;
Hebrews 1:9 (on which passage see
ἀγαλλίασις); mentioned among articles of commerce,
Luke 16:6;
Revelation 6:6;
Revelation 18:13. Cf.
Winers RWB, under the word Oel; Furrer in
Schenkel 4:354; Schnedermann, Die Biblical Symbolik des Oelbaumes u. d. Oeles, in the Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol. for 1874, p. 4ff; (
B. D., under the word
, II. 4; and Meyer edition Weiss on Mark 6:13).