ἘΛΑΙΑΙ, ἐλαιαι
ELAIAI, elaiai
Sounds Like: eh-LAI-ai
Translations: olives, olive trees
From the root: ἘΛΑΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to olives or olive trees. It is the plural form of the noun 'ἘΛΑΙΑ'. It is commonly used to describe the fruit or the tree itself, which was a significant plant in ancient Mediterranean cultures for its oil and wood.
Inflection: Nominative, Vocative, Feminine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1636 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 10:56
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Revelation — 11:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΑΙΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΛΑΙΑ — olive tree, an olive tree, olive, an olive, olive oil, an olive oil
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.