Salt
ἅλαςStrong’s G0217halas
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Halas is the Greek word usually translated “salt”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
Meaning
Usually translated “salt”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- salt 7
- with salt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- Luke 1
- Colossians 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 9:50Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
- Luke 14:34Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
- Colossians 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Greek dictionary
ἅλας halas · salt
ἅλας (T, ἅλα), -ατος, τό, late form of cl. ἅλς, -ος, ὁ (MM, VGT, see word), [in LXX chiefly for מְלַח ;] salt, lit, and figuratively: Mat.5:13, Mrk.9:50 Luk.14:34; like cl. ἅλες, wit, of wisdom and grace in speech: Col.4:6.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “salt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SALT, noun
[Gr.; Latin The radical sense is probably pungent, and if s is radical, the word belongs to the root of Latin salio; but this is uncertain.]
- Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc.
- In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd.
- Taste; sapor; smack.
- Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt
All definitions and other forms of “salt”
SALT, adjective
- Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water
- Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6
- Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.
- Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.
- Producing salt water; as a salt spring.
- Lecherous; slacious.
SALT, noun
- The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt
- A vessel for holding salt
SALT, verb transitive
- To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
SALT, verb intransitive
To deposit salt from a saline substance; as, the brine begins to salt [Used by manufacturers.]
SALT, noun
A leap; the act of jumping. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.