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To season

ἀρτύωStrong’s G0741

artuō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Artuō is the Greek word usually translated “season”, “it be seasoned” and “seasoned”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“Salt 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.”
Mark 9:50 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • will you season 1
  • will it be seasoned 1
  • seasoned 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1
  • Luke 1
  • Colossians 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀρτύω artuō · to season

ἀρτύω [in Sm.: Sng.8:2 * ;] 1. to arrange, make ready (Hom.). 2. Of food (as in comic writers), to season (MM, see word): Mrk.9:50, Luk.14:34, Col.4:6.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “season” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SE'ASON, verb transitive

  1. To render palatable, or to give a higher relish to, by the addition or mixture of another substance more pungent or pleasant; as, to season meat with salt; to season any thing with spices. Leviticus 2:13
  2. To render more agreeable, pleasant or delightful; to give relish or zest to by something that excites, animates or exhilarates.
  3. To render more agreeable, or less rigorous and severe; to temper; to moderate; to qualify by admixture.
  4. To imbue; to tinge or taint.
All definitions and other forms of “season”
  1. To fit any use by time or habit; to mature; to prepare.
  2. To prepare for use by drying or hardening; to take out or suffer to escape the natural juices; as, to season timber.
  3. To prepare or mature for a climate; to accustom to and enable to endure; as, to season the body to a particular climate.

SE'ASON, verb intransitive

  1. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate, as the human body.
  2. To become dry and hard by the escape of natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substances.
  3. To betoken; to savor.

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.