Oil-tree

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Oil-tree
     (Isa. 41:19; R.V. marg., "oleaster"), Heb. 'etz shemen, rendered
     "olive tree" in 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 32, 33 (R.V., "olive wood")
     and "pine branches" in Neh. 8:15 (R.V., "branches of wild
     olive"), was some tree distinct from the olive. It was probably
     the oleaster (Eleagnus angustifolius), which grows abundantly in


     almost all parts of Palestine, especially about Hebron and
     Samaria. "It has a fine hard wood," says Tristram, "and yields
     an inferior oil, but it has no relationship to the olive, which,
     however, it resembles in general appearance."