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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ἀγριέλαιος G65
Pronunciation agriélaios
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 It a wild olive shoot 1× Romans 11:17
a wild olive tree 1× Romans 11:24
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Romans 11:17
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 1
Romans 2
Source forms
ἀγριέλαιος 1x agrielaios Romans 11:17
ἀγριελαίου 1x agrielaiou Romans 11:24
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Romans 11:24
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Romans 11:17
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Wild olive tree representing gentile believers grafted into Israel's covenant heritage
Strong's G65
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
an oleaster
Extended definition Source: 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 corpus Greek 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 11:17 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
ἀγριέλαιος agrielaiov
a wild olive tree
Read verse Romans 11:24 Noun 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 patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Genitive (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Rom 11:17 1×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Rom 11:24 1×
Word Origins
ἀγριέλαιος is built from these roots:
ἄγριος G66
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain