agrielaios identifies the olive tree from which a person is cut or grafted in Romans 11.

In both occurrences, the term identifies the olive tree described as wild within the clauses about branches being grafted in or cut off and grafted into another olive tree.

1. The wild olive tree in grafting imagery · dominant

   In Romans 11:17, the nominative singular form identifies the tree associated with the person grafted in among broken-off branches and sharing the olive tree’s root richness. In Romans 11:24, the genitive singular form occurs in the clause about being cut off from an olive tree described as wild and grafted into a cultivated olive tree; the APB renders the clause “from the olive tree that is wild by nature.”

   Romans 11:17Romans 11:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the tree as “a wild olive tree” in Romans 11:17 and as “the olive tree that is wild by nature” in Romans 11:24. These phrases confirm the clauses’ tree imagery without isolating every element of the term.