3: 17 For though the fig tree doesn ’ t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food ; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: 3: 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.

Common trees on the island include the chestnut, cypress, oak, olive tree, pine, plane, and tamarisk.

Well-known or economically important members of this order include lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, the ash tree, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.

The northern portion of the state is home to many tree species such as ponderosa pine, aspen, cottonwood, spruce, fir, and Russian olive, which is an invasive species.

She is hesitant, but accepts him when he mentions that their bed was made from an olive tree still rooted to the ground.

Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive ( the fruit of Olea europaea ; family Oleaceae ), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin.

The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin ; wild olives were collected by Neolithic peoples as early as the 8th millennium BC.

The wild olive tree originated in Asia Minor in ancient Greece.

The olive ( or, Olea europaea, meaning " Oil from / of Europe ") is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin ( the adjoining coastal areas of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa ) as well as northern Iraq, and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.

The olive tree, Olea europaea, is an evergreen tree or shrub native to the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

" Indeed, olive suckers sprout readily from the stump, and the great age of some existing olive trees shows that it was perfectly possible that the olive tree of the Acropolis dated to the Bronze Age.

According to Pliny the Elder a vine, a fig and an olive tree grew in the middle of the Roman Forum, the latter was planted to provide shade ( the garden plot was recreated in the 20th century ).

The leafy branches of the olive tree – the olive branch as a symbol of abundance, glory and peace – were used to crown the victors of friendly games and bloody wars.

The olive tree and olives are mentioned over 30 times in the Bible, in both the New and Old Testaments.

The olive tree itself, as well as olive oil and olives, play an important role in the Bible.

The metaphor of His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light even if no fire touches it.

The northernmost olive grove is placed in Anglesey, an island off the north west coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom: but it is too early to say if the growing will be successful, having been planted just five years ago.

In the late nineteenth century, ' Ajjur was a small village containing olive trees, with most of its houses clustered together, but some dispersed to the west and south.

First, water is fetched from a freshly flowing spring ; cauldrons which stand in the sanctuary are garlanded with wool and filled with water and honey ; turning towards the east, the sacrificer tips the vessels towards the west ; the olive branches which he has been holding in his hand he now strews on the ground at the place where the earth has drunk in the libation ; and with a silent prayer he departs, not looking back.

The olive baboon inhabits a strip of 25 equatorial African countries, very nearly ranging from the east to west coast of the continent.

The parable of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp: the lamp enclosed in glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light!

Abrantes commands the highway along the Tagus valley west from Belver ( in the municipality of Gavião ) until Constância, occupying the crest of a hill covered with olive woods, gardens and vines ; historically, the fortified town has been regarded as an important military position.

Along the west wall there were basins 1. 40 m deep, which served for storing liquids, ( olive oil and wine ).

It was purely a matter of local pride that the Athenians claimed that the olive grew first in Athens.

He arrives in Athens where Parthian envoys greets him with olive branches, a sign of peace.

The only reward he would accept was a branch of the sacred olive, and a promise of perpetual friendship between Athens and Cnossus ( Plutarch, Life of Solon, 12 ; Aristotle, Ath.

Before Akademia was a school, and even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall, it contained a sacred grove of olive trees dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens.

Apart from the Olympics, the best respected were the Isthmian Games in Corinth, the Nemean Games, the Pythian Games in Delphi, and the Panathenaic Games in Athens, where the winner of the four-horse chariot race was given 140 amphorae of olive oil ( much sought after and precious in ancient times ).

A runner George Sabanis ( who later started a career as a pop star in Greece ), carrying a flag with an image of an olive branch symbolizing not only peace, but Athens itself, lapped around the stadium, symbolically crossing tape dedicated to the previous 27 Olympiads.

The runner ended his run at the very center of the stadium, where Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and Rogge were under the olive tree, symbolizing the Olympic's current journey, from Athens to Athens.

Outside the walls of Athens, the site of the Academy was a sacred grove of olive trees, still recalled in the phrase " the groves of Academe.

contained a sacred grove of olive trees dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens.

* Kalamata, a large, black olive with a smooth and meatlike taste, is named after the city of Kalamata, Greece, and is used as a table olive.

Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called " Eleona Basilica " ( elaion in Greek means " olive garden ", from elaia " olive tree ," and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning " mercy ").

It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes.

Olive Oyl is named after olive oil, used commonly in cooking or in salads.

Daughter Lindsey Averill Nerney ( Powell states she named her for the California-based olive processor ) was born from the union on February 1, 1956.

The Gibson is named after him, as he favored ordering gin martinis with a pickled onion garnish in place of the traditional olive or lemon zest.

The Athenians, under their ruler Cecrops, accepted the olive tree and named the city after Athena.

The olive baboon is named for its coat, which, at a distance, is a shade of green-grey.

The subspecies found in the Western Ghats is sometimes separated as tehminae ( named after the wife of Salim Ali ) and is more olive above, has fine spots on the black throat and the wing-covert spots are not distinct.

A well-known stop along the Buenos Aires-Córdoba trade route for much of the 18th century, one of the area's first landowners, Domingo de Acassuso, began cultivating olive trees around 1720 and the spot was officially named Olivos on 19 February 1770.

Since already it has been said, Martos possesses an agricultural immense richness thanks to the culture of the olive grove, which places the city in the summit as for production and quality of what is named a “ liquid gold ".

Some believe that the name comes from wild olive trees ( Agrielies ) ( Αγριελιές ), or a small plant named " Agriada " ().

He mentions " a pheidon would be a jar of olive oil, named from the Pheidonian measures.