Everyday object in Scripture

Oil in Scripture

Used for food, light, anointing, healing, and offerings.

Study note: read each object in its immediate biblical context. Where shown, Strong’s links are drawn from the site’s local KJV Strong’s-token data.

Basic meaning

Used for food, light, anointing, healing, and offerings.

Oil is used in Scripture in ordinary-life, narrative, worship, teaching, legal, or symbolic contexts according to the listed references.

Local Strong’s evidence

The following local KJV Strong’s-token matches are connected with the listed references for this item.

ReferenceKJV wordingStrong’sMatched wording
Exodus 27:20oilH8081Oil
James 5:14with oilG1637Oil

Expanded Strong’s occurrence references

Occurrence precision: tighter lexical range. Best used as a direct lexical occurrence set, while still checking the surrounding verse context.

This table follows the content Strong’s numbers for this entry into the local KJV Strong’s occurrence index.

Expanded occurrences
196
Unique references
187
Books represented
32
Strong’s numbers
G1637, H8081

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Verse references

These links open the local NET Bible chapter context where available.