Word Summary
Elaiōn: an olive orchard, the Mount of Olives
Original Word: ἘλαιώνTransliteration: Elaiōn
Phonetic Spelling: (el-ah-yone')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: an olive orchard, the Mount of Olives
Meaning: Olivet -- an olive orchard, the Mount of Olives
Strong's Concordance
Olivet.
From elaia; an olive-orchard, i.e. (specially) the Mount of Olives -- Olivet.
see GREEK elaia
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.)