Olive
18 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- Bears Flowers
- Branch of, Brought by the Dove to Noah's Ark
- Branches of, Used for Booths (Huts)
- Common to the Land of Canaan
- Fable of
- Fruit of Oil Extracted From, Used As Illuminating Oil in the Tabernacle
- Israelites Commanded to Cultivate in the Land of Promise
- Precepts Concerning Gleaning the Fruit of
- Symbolical
- The Cherubs Made of the Wood of
- The Wild, a Figure of the Gentiles; the Cultivated, of the Jews
Bears Flowers
- Job 15:33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Branch of, Brought by the Dove to Noah's Ark
- Genesis 8:11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Branches of, Used for Booths (Huts)
- Nehemiah 8:15 and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make …
Common to the Land of Canaan
- Exodus 23:11 but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.
- Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Fable of
- Judges 9:8 One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
Fruit of Oil Extracted From, Used As Illuminating Oil in the Tabernacle
- Exodus 39:37 the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;
- Leviticus 24:2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
- Zechariah 4:12 And I questioned him further, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?”
Israelites Commanded to Cultivate in the Land of Promise
- Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
Precepts Concerning Gleaning the Fruit of
- Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
- Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
Symbolical
- Zechariah 4:2–12 “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps. …
- Revelation 11:4 These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
The Cherubs Made of the Wood of
- 1 Kings 6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
- 1 Kings 6:31–33 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts. …
The Wild, a Figure of the Gentiles; the Cultivated, of the Jews
- Romans 11:17–21 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, …
- Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Related topics
Olive of ProsperityThe Olive-Tree used for MakingThe Olive-TreeGraftingThe Olive-Tree of Christ
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.