OLIVE

(A fruit tree)

Branch of, brought by the dove to Noah's ark

Ge 8:11

Common to the land of Canaan

Ex 23:11; De 6:11; 8:8

Israelites commanded to cultivate in the land of promise

De 28:40

Branches of, used for booths (huts)

Ne 8:15

Bears flowers

Job 15:33

Precepts concerning gleaning the fruit of

De 24:20; Isa 17:6

The cherubs made of the wood of

1Ki 6:23,31-33

Fable of

Jud 9:8

FIGURATIVE

Of prosperity

Ps 128:3

The wild, a figure of the Gentiles; the cultivated, of the Jews

Ro 11:17-21,24

SYMBOLICAL

Zec 4:2-12; Re 11:4

FRUIT OF

Oil extracted from, used as illuminating oil in the tabernacle

Ex 39:37; Le 24:2; Zec 4:12

See OIL