Strong's Definition
probably from an unused root (akin to 2099); an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry
KJV Usage: olive (tree, -yard), Olivet
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
זַ֫יִת (za.yit) — (Mount of) Olives. This name means olive, olive tree Also named: elaiōn (ἐλαιών "Olivet" G1638)
זַ֫יִת (za.yit) — olive. 1) olive, olive tree 1a) olive tree 1b) olives 2) mountain facing Jerusalem on the east side
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Trees
olive tree = tree reaching up to 10 m. high, but usually pruned to around 5 m.; its leaves are grayish green above, and whitish underneath; its fruit is about 2 cm. long and a bit more than 1 cm. thick with a hard stone inside and a soft skin that covers the oily flesh; ► its fruit is used for food and oil for cooking, for lamps, for rubbing on the body, for medicine, and for anointing; ≈ regarded as beautiful and associated with well-being
GEN 8:11 · EXO 23:11 · EXO 27:20 · EXO 30:24 · LEV 24:2 · DEU 6:11 · DEU 8:8 · DEU 24:20 · DEU 28:40 · DEU 28:40 · JOS 24:13 · JDG 9:8 · JDG 9:9 · JDG 15:5 · 1SA 8:14 · 2SA 15:30 · 2KI 5:26 · 2KI 18:32 · 1CH 27:28 · NEH 5:11 · NEH 8:15 · NEH 9:25 · JOB 15:33 · PSA 52:10 · PSA 128:3 · ISA 17:6 · ISA 24:13 · JER 11:16 · HOS 14:7 · AMO 4:9 · MIC 6:15 · HAB 3:17 · HAG 2:19 · ZEC 4:3 · ZEC 4:11 · ZEC 4:12 · ZEC 14:4 · ZEC 14:4
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
זַ֫יִת n.m. olive-tree, olive olive-tree
of fruit of olive-tree, olives
in designations of place
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