זַיִת zayit

Hebrew word for “olive” · Strong’s H2132 · used 38 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

1) olive, olive tree; 1a) olive tree; 1b) olives; 2) mountain facing Jerusalem on the east side

Senses in the lexicon

• olive (35)
• (Mount of) Olives (3)

How it is translated

Glosses given for zayit in context, with how often each is used:

• olive trees 14
• olive tree 9
• olive 5
• olives 5
• like olive tree 2
• olive grove 1
• olive groves 1
• like an olive tree 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Zechariah 4 (3), Judges 9 (2), Genesis 8 (1), Exodus 23 (1), Exodus 27 (1), Exodus 30 (1), Leviticus 24 (1), Deuteronomy 6 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), Deuteronomy 24 (1)

Forms

• זית 13
• הזיתים 5
• וזיתים 4
• זיתים 3
• כזית 3
• זיתך 2
• הזית 2
• וזיתיכם 2
• לזיתך 1
• לזית 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with zayit more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כֶּרֶם kerem “vineyard” 10
• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 8
• גֶּפֶן gephen “vine” 5
• תְּאֵנָה teenah “fig” 4
• עֵץ ets “tree” 5
• תִּירוֹשׁ tirosh “new wine” 3
• נֹקֶף noqeph “shaking” 2
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 5
• כָּתִית katit “beaten” 2
• עֹלֵלוֹת olelah “gleaning” 2
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 5
• סוּךְ sukh “to anoint” 2

Key verses

The verses using zayit that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 24:2 — Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
• 2 Samuel 15:30 — And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him…
• 2 Kings 5:26 — And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive…
• Nehemiah 9:25 — And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so…
• Psalms 128:3 — Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
• Isaiah 17:6 — Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost…
• Isaiah 24:13 — When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is…
• Amos 4:9 — I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured…
• Micah 6:15 — Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
• Habakkuk 3:17 — Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock…
• Haggai 2:19 — Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I…
• Zechariah 14:4 — And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof…

See all 36 verses in the Word Atlas

Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.