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Romans 11:17

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

KJV

Εἰ δέ τινες τῶν κλάδων ἐξεκλάσθησαν, σὺ δὲ ἀγριέλαιος ὢν ἐνεκεντρίσθης ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ συνκοινωνὸς τῆς ῥίζης τῆς πιότητος τῆς ἐλαίας ἐγένου,

Greek NT

Quod si aliqui ex ramis fracti sunt, tu autem cum oleaster esses, insertus es in illis, et socius radicis, et pinguedinis olivæ factus es,

Vulgate

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

ASV

And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree:

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

Symbols Olive Tree

In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κλάδος
klados
noun · 11×
πιότης
piotes
noun · 1×
συγκοινωνός
sugkoinonos
noun · 4×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀγριέλαιος
agrielaios
noun · 2×
ἐγκεντρίζω
egkentrizo
verb · 6×
ἐκκλάω
ekklao
verb · 3×
ἐλαία
elaia
noun · 16×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ῥίζα
riza
noun · 17×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ῥίζης | WH/NIV: ῥίζης | Treg/RP: + καὶ
  • ῥίζης — SBLGNT
  • ῥίζης — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + καὶ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§60The people descended from Abraham would be the trustee of the promise made to the patriarchs, the chosen people, called to prepare for that day when God would gather all his children into the unity of the Church.18 They would be the root on to which the Gentiles would be grafted, once they came to believe.19
§755"The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness…
By a comparison drawn from the wild olive-tree, whose quality but not whose nature is changed by grafting, he proves more important things; he points out also that man without the Spirit is not capable of bringing forth fruit, or of inheriting the kingdom of God. 1. This truth, therefore, [he declares], in order that we may not reject the engrafting of the Spirit while pamperin…
2. Wherefore neither with this was He satisfied, but unfolds also the very nature of the war, signifying it to be far more grievous even than a civil war; and He says, I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. For not friends only, says He, nor fellow citizens, but even kinsme…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210219.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. Calvin shows that God's rejection of Israel is neither total nor final. A remnant according to the election of grace has been preserved. The Gentiles, like wild olive branches, have been grafted in — but they must not boast against the natural branches. If God spared not the natural branches, he may not spare the grafted ones either. T…
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock. The Church cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the…
We must now see in what way we become possessed of the blessings which God has bestowed on His only-begotten Son — not for private use, but to enrich the poor and needy. And the first thing to be attended to is, that so long as we are without Christ and separated from Him, nothing which He suffered and did for the salvation of the human race is of the least benefit to us. To co…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:9 — God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
  • Col 1:12 — Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
  • Col 2:7 — Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
  • Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
  • Deut 8:8 — A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
  • Eph 2:11 — Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
  • Eph 3:6 — That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
  • Ezek 15:6 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Gal 2:15 — We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
  • Heb 3:1 — Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
  • Heb 3:14 — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • Isa 6:13 — But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
  • Isa 27:11 — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, a
  • Jas 1:21 — Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • Jer 11:16 — The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
  • Jer 11:16 — The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
  • John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
  • Jonah 1:16 — Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
  • Judg 9:8 — The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Matt 8:11 — And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 21:43 — Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
  • Ps 52:8 — But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
  • Ps 65:11 — Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
  • Ps 92:13 — Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Rev 11:4 — These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
  • Rev 11:4 — These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
  • Rom 11:16 — For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
  • Rom 11:19 — Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
  • Rom 11:24 — For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed int
  • Rom 15:27 — It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
  • Zech 4:3 — And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
  • Zech 4:3 — And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.