27 Bible Verses about Olive Trees
Most Relevant Verses
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy and loving kindness of God forever and ever.
These (witnesses) are the two olive trees, and the two lamp stands standing before the God of the earth.
I said to him: What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side of it?
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
There are two olive trees beside it. One is on the right side of the bowl and the other is on the left side of the bowl.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.
Jehovah called you a large olive tree that has fine-looking fruit to look at. He will set fire to you with a mighty lightning storm, and your branches will be broken.
Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten: two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares Jehovah the God of Israel.
I spoke a second time: What are these two olive branches, that are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil from themselves?
His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon.
Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat.
If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
The trees went out to anoint a king over them. They said to the olive tree: 'Be our king.'
The olive tree answered: 'I would have to stop producing my oil in order to govern you. My oil is used to honor gods and human beings.'
I will put the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive in the desert. I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together.
When you beat the olives from your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil.
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
If the tree bears figs next year it will be good. If it does not you can have it cut down.
You will have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint with the oil, for your olive shall drop off its fruit.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water. It yields its fruit in season and its leaves do not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore (fig-mulberry) tree near where he would pass by in order to see him.
Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.
Bible Theasaurus
From Thematic Bible
Olive Trees » Canaan abounded in
The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil.
The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat.
Olive Trees » Oil procured from
The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil.
Command the Israelites that the lighting must be provided by pure virgin olive oil so that the lamps will not go out.
Olive Trees » Cultivated » In olive yards
He will take away the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive orchards and give them to his officials.
Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil that you have taken from them.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » (when wild,) of the gentiles
If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of Christ
If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
Olive Trees » Described as » Bearing goodly fruit
Jehovah called you a large olive tree that has fine-looking fruit to look at. He will set fire to you with a mighty lightning storm, and your branches will be broken.
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.
Olive Trees » Described as » Fair and beautiful
His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon.
Jehovah called you a large olive tree that has fine-looking fruit to look at. He will set fire to you with a mighty lightning storm, and your branches will be broken.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » (gleaning of,) of the remnant of grace
Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten: two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares Jehovah the God of Israel.
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
Olive Trees » Described as » Fat and unctuous
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
The olive tree answered: 'I would have to stop producing my oil in order to govern you. My oil is used to honor gods and human beings.'
Olive Trees » The fruit of, trodden in presses to extract the oil
You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.
You will sow and not reap. You will tread the olives, but will not be anointed with oil! And you will grow the grapes but you will not drink the wine.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the righteous
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy and loving kindness of God forever and ever.
His shoots will sprout and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His fragrance will be like the cedars of Lebanon.
Olive Trees » Kings of israel largely cultivated
for the olive and fig trees in the foothills, Baal Hanan from Gedor for storing olive oil- Joash
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the two witnesses
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These (witnesses) are the two olive trees, and the two lamp stands standing before the God of the earth.
Olive Trees » Cultivated » Among rocks
He made him ride on the heights of the earth and fed him with the produce of the fields. He gave him honey from rocks and olive oil from solid rock.
Olive Trees » Gleaning of, left for the poor
When you beat the olives from your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
Olive Trees » Beaten to remove the fruit
When you beat the olives from your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
Olive Trees » Often cast its fruit
You will have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint with the oil, for your olive shall drop off its fruit.
Olive Trees » Failure of, a great calamity
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.
Olive Trees » Used for making » The doors and posts of the temple
A double door made of olive wood was hung at the entrance of the Most Holy Place. There was a pointed arch on top of the doorway. The doors were decorated with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and flowers. The doors, the cherubim, and the palm trees were covered with gold. A rectangular doorframe of olive wood was made for the entrance to the main room.
Olive Trees » Pruning of, alluded to
Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the jewish church
Jehovah called you a large olive tree that has fine-looking fruit to look at. He will set fire to you with a mighty lightning storm, and your branches will be broken.
Olive Trees » Described as » Green
Jehovah called you a large olive tree that has fine-looking fruit to look at. He will set fire to you with a mighty lightning storm, and your branches will be broken.
Olive Trees » Used for making » Booths at feast of tabernacles
They were to give an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying: Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives (oil trees) and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.
Olive Trees » Assyria abounded in
The king will resettle you in a country much like your own. There are vineyards to give wine and there is grain for making bread there. It is a land of olives, olive oil, and honey. Do what he commands and you will not die. Do not let Hezekiah fool you into thinking Jehovah will rescue you.
Olive Trees » Used for making » The cherubim in the temple
Two cherubim made of olive wood were placed in the Most Holy Place. Each one was fifteen feet tall.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Probable origin of its being the emblem of peace
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
Olive Trees » Cultivated » On the sides of mountains
They were near Jerusalem at Bethphage. Jesus sent two disciples to the Mount of Olives.
Olive Trees » Fruit of, during sabbatical year left for the poor, &c
Let your land rest the seventh year. Do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there. The wild animals may have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.
Olive Trees » Grafting of, alluded to
If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Olive Trees » Often grew wild
Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them.
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of children of pious parents
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.
Olive Trees » Shaken when fully ripe
Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten: two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares Jehovah the God of Israel.
Olive Trees » Good for the service of God and man
The olive tree answered: 'I would have to stop producing my oil in order to govern you. My oil is used to honor gods and human beings.'
Olive Trees » Often cast its flowers
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
Olive Trees » Often suffered from caterpillars
I struck you with scorching and mildew. The caterpillar has devoured the multitudes of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive-trees. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.
