What is the significance of the olive branch in the bible?

Answer 1

The goddess of peace, Irena, daughter of Zeus and Themed, was depicted with an olive branch in her hand. In times of war, peace envoys held a symbolic olive branch to show their mission.The custom grew from there.

Answer 2

The olive tree was a very valuable plant in Bible times. Olive trees were very abundant, hearty, lived a very long time and could produce fruits for hundreds of years.

With several literal mentions of the olive in The Bible, it also was used figuratively and in illustrations.

Most people think of this tree when in the book of Genesis, a dove brought back an olive leaf to the ark, proving that the waters were receding.

Here are some bible texts that use "olive":

(Genesis 8:11, 12) 11 Later on the dove came to him about the time of evening and, look! there was an olive leaf freshly plucked in its bill, and so Noah got to know that the waters had abated from the earth. 12 And he went on waiting still another seven days. Then he sent out the dove, but it did not come back again to him anymore.

(Deuteronomy 6:10, 11). . ., 11 and houses full of all good things and that you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out that you did not hew out, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you shall have eaten and become satisfied,

(Deuteronomy 24:20)20 "In case you beat your olive tree, you must not go over its boughs following up yourself. It should stay for the alien resident, for the fatherless boy and for the widow.

(Deuteronomy 28:40)You will come to have olive trees in all your territory, but you will rub yourself with no oil, because your olives will drop off.

(Judges 9:8) "Once upon a time the trees went to anoint a king over them. So they said to the olive tree, 'Do be king over us.'

(Job 15:33) 33 He will thrust away his unripe grapes just like a vine, And cast off his blossoms just like an olive tree.

(Psalm 52:8) But I shall be like a luxuriant olive tree in God's house; I do trust in the loving-kindness of God to time indefinite, even forever.

(Psalm 128:3) Your wife will be like a fruit-bearing vine In the innermost parts of your house. Your sons will be like slips of olive trees all around your table.

(Isaiah 17:5, 6) . . .. 6 And there must remain in it a gleaning as when there is a beating off of the olive tree: two [or] three ripe olives in the top of the branch; four [or] five on the fruit-bearing boughs thereof," is the utterance of Jehovah the God of Israel.

(Isaiah 24:13) 13 For thus it will become in the midst of the land, in among the peoples, like the beating off of the olive tree, like the gleaning when the grape gathering has come to an end.

(Jeremiah 11:16) 16 'A luxuriant olive tree, pretty with fruit [and] in form,' is what Jehovah has called your name. With sound of the great roaring, he has set a fire blazing against her, and they have broken its branches.

(Hosea 14:6) 6 His twigs will go forth, and his dignity will become like that of the olive tree, and his fragrance will be like that of Leb′a·non.

(Amos 4:9) 9 "'I struck YOU people with scorching and mildew. There was a multiplying of YOUR gardens and of YOUR vineyards, but YOUR fig trees and YOUR olive trees the caterpillar would devour; yet YOU did not come back to me,' is the utterance of Jehovah.

(Habakkuk 3:17) 17 Although [the] fig tree itself may not blossom, and there may be no yield on the vines; the work of [the] olive tree may actually turn out a failure, and the terraces themselves may actually produce no food; [the] flock may actually be severed from [the] pen, and there may be no herd in the enclosures;

(Haggai 2:19) 19 Is there as yet the seed in the grain pit? And as yet, the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate tree and the olive tree-it has not borne, has it? From this day I shall bestow blessing.'"

(Zechariah 4:3, 4) 3 And there are two olive trees alongside it, one on the right side of the bowl and one on its left side." 4 Then I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me, saying: "What do these [things] mean, my lord?"

(Zechariah 4:11) And I proceeded to answer and say to him: "What do these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left side mean?"

(Romans 11:17) However, if some of the branches were broken off but you, although being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the olive'sroot of fatness,

(Romans 11:24) For if you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into the garden olive tree, how much rather will these who are natural be grafted into their own olive tree!

(Revelation 11:4) These are [symbolized by] the two olive trees and the two lampstands and are standing before the Lord of the earth.

Answer 3

Peace