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Salty

ἁλυκόςStrong’s G0252

halukos

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Halukos is the Greek word usually translated “salt”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”
James 3:12 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “salt”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • of salt 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • James 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ἁλυκός halukos · salty

    ἁλυκός, -ή, -όν (ἅλς), [in LXX for מְלַח, שִׂדִּים ;] salt: Jas.3:12.† (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.]

    1. Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc.
    2. In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd.
    3. Taste; sapor; smack.
    4. Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt
    All definitions and other forms of “salt”

      SALT, adjective

      1. Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water
      2. Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6
      3. Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.
      4. Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.
      5. Producing salt water; as a salt spring.
      6. Lecherous; slacious.

      SALT, noun

      1. The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt
      2. A vessel for holding salt

      SALT, verb transitive

      1. To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.
      2. 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.