Nave’s Topical Bible
Olive
18 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(A fruit tree)
- Branch of, brought by the dove to Noah's ark
- Common to the land of Canaan
- Israelites commanded to cultivate in the land of promise
- Branches of, used for booths (huts)
- Bears flowers
- Precepts concerning gleaning the fruit of
- The cherubs made of the wood of
- Fable of
- FIGURATIVE
- Of prosperity
- The wild, a figure of the Gentiles; the cultivated, of the Jews
- SYMBOLICAL
- FRUIT OF
- Oil extracted from, used as illuminating oil in the Tabernacle
See OIL
Bible verses about “Olive”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 8:11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Exodus 23:11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
- Deuteronomy 6:11And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
- Deuteronomy 8:8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- Deuteronomy 28:40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
- Nehemiah 8:15And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Job 15:33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- Deuteronomy 24:20When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Isaiah 17:6Yet 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 fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 6:23And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:31And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
- 1 Kings 6:32The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:33So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
- Judges 9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
- Psalms 128:3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- Romans 11:17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
- Romans 11:19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
- Romans 11:20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
- Romans 11:21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
- Romans 11:24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
- Zechariah 4:2And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
- Zechariah 4:3And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- Zechariah 4:4So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
- Zechariah 4:5Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
- Zechariah 4:6Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Zechariah 4:7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
- Zechariah 4:8Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
- Zechariah 4:9The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.
- Zechariah 4:10For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
- Zechariah 4:11Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
- Zechariah 4:12And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
- Revelation 11:4These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
- Exodus 39:37The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
- Leviticus 24:2Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.