UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: Though the various terms for wine and olive oil might very well be treated simply in the category of Food (Domain 5), they obviously served other functions as well, for wine was used medicinally as an antiseptic and olive oil was used not only for food but also for illumination in lamps. Since both the production of wine and olive oil involved relatively elaborate processes, it therefore seems best to classify them as artifacts rather than subsume them under various functional categories.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: ἔλαιον; -ου

Related lemmas: ἐλαία

Sense 1: olive oil

Semantic entry: 6.202

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Plant Products

Definition: oil extracted from the fruit of olive trees, used as food, medicine, for burning in lamps, and as perfume when mixed with sweet-smelling substances{N:001}

Notes: See discussion of translational problems in 6.197: οἶνος.

Further resources: realia:9.3

MAT 25:3: RV MAT 25:3 · LV MAT 25:3 · Read together MAT 25:3

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OET-RV MAT 25:3

3 The less clever ones took their lamps but didn’t take any oil for them,

OET-LV MAT 25:3