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STRONGS NUMBER G65

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Word Summary
agrielaios: of the wild olive
Original Word: ἀγριέλαιος
Transliteration: agrielaios
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ree-el'-ah-yos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: of the wild olive
Meaning: of the wild olive
Strong's Concordance
wild olive tree.

From agrios and elaia; an oleaster -- olive tree (which is) wild.

see GREEK agrios

see GREEK elaia

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 65: ἀγριέλαιος

ἀγριέλαιος, (ἄγριος and ἔλαιος or ἐλαία, like ἀγριάμπελος);

1. of or belonging to the oleaster, or wild olive (σκυτάλην ἀγριέλαιον, Anthol. 9, 237, 4; (cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 376)); spoken of a scion, Romans 11:17.

2. As a substantive ἡ ἀγριέλαιος the oleaster, the wild olive; (opposed to καλλιέλαιος (cf. Aristotle, plant. 1, 6)), also called by the Greeks κότινος, Romans 11:24; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii. 495ff (See B. D. under the word , and Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, under the word Olive. The latter says, p. 377, 'the wild olive must not he confounded with the Oleaster or Oil-tree'.)



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