Topic
Olive, Wild
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Romans 11:17ISBE
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:24ISBE
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
Figuratively used in Ro 11:17,24 for the Gentiles, grafted into "the good olive tree" of Israel.
See OLIVE TREE.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.