This is the name of the place Mount of Olives: A mountain ridge east of Jerusalem.
Definition
ἐλαιών, -ῶνος, ὁ
(ἐλαία), [in LXX for זַיִת ;]
olive-grove, olive-garden (so in FlJ and in π.; Deiss., BS, 209 ff.; MM, Exp., iii; M, Pr., 49, 69, 235): Luke 19:29; 21:37 (WH, -ῶν; see their App., 158; Field, Notes, 73; El., § 10, 5; 33, 1; Thayer, see word), Acts 1:12 (where EL, ll with, proposes the conjectural emendation ἐλαιῶν for -ῶνος).
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- Acts 1:12Ἐλαιῶνος · OlivesThen they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.