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Olive press
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Industrial Olive Grinder at Nazareth Village
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Comments: Olive oil extractor/juicer, Dion, Greece, unknown BC date. Reconstructed from original kept at Dion Archaelogical Museum. The 2 plates were being used for crushing the olive stones and extracting the olive oil, which in turn was collected by the lower plate's small holes, and came out through the large front hole. Thessaloniki Technology Museum
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Comments: Lever-and-weights oil press, used in the Golan from the 1st c. CE; reconstruction, Qasrin open-air museum, Golan Heights. Oil press. Katzrin ancient village. Golan Heights.
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Comments: Ancient oil press, St. Peter's castle; Bodrum, Turkey
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Comments: Donkey operating millstone at Nazareth Village (Seetheholyland.net)
From Easton: Olive - the fruit of the olive-tree. This tree yielded oil which was highly valued. The best oil was from olives that were plucked before being fully ripe, and then beaten or squeezed (Deuteronomy 24:20; Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13). It was called "beaten," or "fresh oil" (Exodus 27:20). There were also oil-presses, in which the oil was trodden out by the feet (Micah 6:15). James (Judges 15:5) calls the fruit "olive berries." The phrase "vineyards and olives" (Judges 15:5, A.V.) should be simply "olive-yard," or "olive-garden," as in the Revised Version. (See OIL)
Verses:
- Exodus 27:20
- Exodus 29:40
- Leviticus 24:2
- Numbers 28:5
- Job 24:11
- Micah 6:15
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