Strong H2132H2132Gזַ֫יִת
(Mount of) Olives
One of the 2 senses of Strong H2132
- Transliteration
- zayith
- Pronunciation
- zah'-yith
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
This name means olive, olive tree
Also named: elaiōn (ἐλαιών "Olivet" G1638)
Also named: elaiōn (ἐλαιών "Olivet" G1638)
General definition
Probably from an unused root (akin to H2099); an olive (as yielding illuminating {oil}) the {tree} the branch or the berry: - olive ({tree} {-yard}) Olivet.
In the biblical story
Olives Mount
A mountain ridge east of Jerusalem
The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of Jerusalem, known as the site of many significant events in the Bible, particularly in the life of Jesus.
In the Bible
Strong H2132G appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- olives1
- olivet1
First verses
- 2 Samuel 15:30And 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 covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
- Zechariah 14:4And 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 toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.