65. agrielaios

Berean Strong's Lexicon

agrielaios: Wild olive tree

Original Word: ἀγριέλαιος
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: agrielaios
Pronunciation: ag-ree-EL-ah-yos
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ree-el'-ah-yos)
Definition: Wild olive tree
Meaning: a wild olive tree, oleaster.

Word Origin: From ἄγριος (agrios, meaning "wild") and ἐλαία (elaia, meaning "olive tree")

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "agrielaios," the concept of olive trees is prevalent in the Old Testament, often symbolizing peace, prosperity, and God's blessing. Relevant Hebrew words include זַיִת (zayit, Strong's H2132) for "olive tree."

Usage: The term "agrielaios" refers to a wild olive tree, which is distinct from a cultivated olive tree. In the New Testament, it is used metaphorically to describe Gentiles who are grafted into the spiritual blessings of Israel, the cultivated olive tree.

Cultural and Historical Background: In ancient Mediterranean agriculture, olive trees were a significant source of oil and food. Cultivated olive trees were carefully tended to produce abundant fruit, while wild olive trees were less productive and often grew untamed. The imagery of grafting branches from a wild olive tree into a cultivated one would have been familiar to Paul's audience, illustrating the inclusion of Gentiles into the covenant blessings originally given to Israel.

HELPS Word-studies

65 agriélaios (from 66 /ágrios, "wild, uncultivated" and 1636 /elaía, "olive tree") – properly, a wild (uncultivated) olive tree.

[The Jews are the natural, cultivated branches in Scripture; believing NT Gentiles are represented as the wild, uncultivated branches.]

65 /agriélaios ("wild olive") occurs twice in the NT (Ro 11:17,24) – both times of "the nations" (believing Gentiles) as now part of the one people of God. See also 1484 /éthnos ("Gentile") and 2565 /kalliélaios ("a cultivated olive tree").

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from agrios and elaia
Definition
of the wild olive
NASB Translation
what (1), wild olive (1), wild olive tree (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 65: ἀγριέλαιος

ἀγριέλαιος, (ἄγριος and ἔλαιος or ἐλαία, like ἀγριάμπελος);

1. of or belonging to the oleaster, or wild olive (σκυτάλην ἀγριέλαιον, Anthol. 9, 237, 4; (cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 376)); spoken of a scion, Romans 11:17.

2. As a substantive ἡ ἀγριέλαιος the oleaster, the wild olive; (opposed to καλλιέλαιος (cf. Aristotle, plant. 1, 6)), also called by the Greeks κότινος, Romans 11:24; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii. 495ff (See B. D. under the word , and Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, under the word Olive. The latter says, p. 377, 'the wild olive must not he confounded with the Oleaster or Oil-tree'.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

wild olive tree.

From agrios and elaia; an oleaster -- olive tree (which is) wild.

see GREEK agrios

see GREEK elaia

Forms and Transliterations

αγριελαιος αγριέλαιος ἀγριέλαιος αγριελαιου αγριελαίου ἀγριελαίου αγριοβάλανον αγριομυρίκη agrielaios agriélaios agrielaiou agrielaíou

Englishman's Concordance

Romans 11:17 N-NFS
GRK: σὺ δὲ ἀγριέλαιος ὢν ἐνεκεντρίσθης
NAS: and you, being a wild olive, were grafted
KJV: being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in
INT: you moreover a wild olive tree being were grafted in

Romans 11:24 N-GFS
GRK: φύσιν ἐξεκόπης ἀγριελαίου καὶ παρὰ
NAS: you were cut off from what is by nature
KJV: out of the olive tree which is wild by
INT: nature were cut off wild olive tree and contrary to

Strong's Greek 65
2 Occurrences

ἀγριέλαιος — 1 Occ.
ἀγριελαίου — 1 Occ.