What does ἀγριέλαιος (agriélaios) mean in the Bible?
ἀγριέλαιος (agriélaios): Wild olive tree representing gentile believers grafted into Israel's covenant heritage
Greek · G65
ἀγριέλαιος
An oleaster
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ἀγριέλαιοςG65
Pronunciationagriélaios
What does ἀγριέλαιος (agriélaios) mean in the Bible?
ἀγριέλαιος (agriélaios): Wild olive tree representing gentile believers grafted into Israel's covenant heritage
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G65?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a wild olive shoot (1), a wild olive tree (1).
Where does ἀγριέλαιος (agriélaios) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 11:17. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita wild olive shoot1×Romans 11:17
a wild olive tree1×Romans 11:24
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowRomans 11:17
Aligned rows2
Books represented1
Romans2
Source forms
ἀγριέλαιος1xagrielaiosRomans 11:17
ἀγριελαίου1xagrielaiouRomans 11:24
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xRomans 11:24
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1xRomans 11:17
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Wild olive tree representing gentile believers grafted into Israel's covenant heritage
Strong'sG65
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms2 forms2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
an oleaster
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Wild olive tree representing gentile believers grafted into Israel's covenant heritage
1of the wild olive (Anth.).
2As subst., the wild olive: Rom.11:17, 24 (CGT, in 1.; MM, VGT, see word).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 11:17Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
ἀγριέλαιοςagrielaiov
a wild olive tree
Read verseRomans 11:24Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
ἀγριελαίου,agrielaiou
a wild olive tree
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns2Aligned forms2Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineRom 11:171×
Genitive · Singular · FeminineRom 11:241×
Word Origins
ἀγριέλαιος is built from these roots: