Dictionary of Biblical Words:
The type of the Holy Spirit. Hence we find that the meat offering, the type of the sinless perfection of Christ’s life, was both mingled with, and anointed with oil (compare Matt. 1:20 and Acts 10:38). In Matt. 25, too, we find that the foolish virgins had no oil in their vessels. The light of the seven-branched candlestick, too, entirely depended on the oil it contained. In many other places also the significance of this type is clearly apparent.
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(olive). Used for preparing food (Ex. 29:2); anointing (2 Sam. 14:2); illuminating (Matt. 25:1-13); in worship (Num. 18:12); in consecration (1 Sam. 10:1); in medicine (Mark 6:13); in burial (Matt. 26:12). Types gladness (Psa. 92:10).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
Olive Oil
In the description of the goodness of the land of promise one of the advantages mentioned is “a land of oil olive”; and among the blessings enumerated with which God would endow His obedient people is that their oil should be multiplied (Deut. 7:13; Deut. 8:8). It was an article of value, and the people had their olive yards as well as their vineyards. Oil was employed for various purposes. It was used as food (2 Chron. 2:10,15; 2 Chron. 11:11; Psa. 55:21); for anointing the kings (1 Sam. 10:1; 1 Sam. 16:1,13); in the sacrifices of the meat offering (Lev. 2:1-16); as an ingredient in the holy ointment (Ex. 30:24-25), see OINTMENT; as a cosmetic (Psa. 23:5; Psa. 92:10; Luke 7:46); to give light in the lamps (Ex. 35:8,14); as an emollient (Luke 10:34). Oil is a type of the Holy Spirit (Matt. 25:3-10; Heb. 1:9).
Olive Yard
“418. Stone Oil Presses” From Manners and Customs of the Bible:
Job 29:6. The rock poured me out rivers of oil.
Some think the reference here is to the fact that the olive-tree sometimes grows in very rocky soil; but allusion is more probably made to stone oil presses, from which the oil flowed like a river. See also Ezekiel 32:14. Moses speaks of oil being sucked “out of the flinty rock” (Deut. 32:13).
“770. Use of Oil and Wine” From Manners and Customs of the Bible:
Luke 10:34. Went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine.
This was a favorite application for wounds in ancient surgery. It was considered a sovereign remedy, especially for wounds produced by violence; wool, lint, or pounded olive being first laid upon the wound. The wine was supposed to cleanse, and the oil to soothe and heal. The two were sometimes made into a compound.
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