# זַיִת (zayit)

Israeli respelling: za-yit. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2132. 36 Old Testament occurrences.

an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry

King James renderings: olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/zayit-h2132

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/8/11) — And 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 fr…
- [Exodus 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/11) — But 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…
- [Exodus 27:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/27/20) — And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
- [Exodus 30:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/24) — And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
- [Leviticus 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Deuteronomy 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/11) — And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which th…
- [Deuteronomy 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/8) — A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- [Deuteronomy 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/20) — When 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…
- [Deuteronomy 28:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/40) — Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
- [Joshua 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/13) — And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyar…
- [Judges 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/8) — The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
- [Judges 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/9) — But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- [Judges 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/5) — And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also th…
- [1 Samuel 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/14) — And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
- [2 Samuel 15:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Kings 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Kings 18:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/32) — Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive an…
- [1 Chronicles 27:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/28) — And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joa…
- [Nehemiah 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/11) — Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of t…
- [Nehemiah 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/15) — And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches,…
- [Nehemiah 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 tre…
- [Job 15:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/33) — He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- [Psalms 52:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/8) — But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
- [Psalms 128:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 f…
- [Isaiah 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/16) — The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and…
- [Hosea 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/14/6) — His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
- [Amos 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pa…
- [Micah 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 no…
- [Habakkuk 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 yiel…
- [Haggai 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Zechariah 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/4/3) — And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- [Zechariah 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/4/11) — Then 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 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/4/12) — And 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 th…
- [Zechariah 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…