33 occurrences

'Salt' in the Bible

All of this latter group of kings allied together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

But Lot's wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

"Also, be sure to rub every offering from your grain offering with salt. You are not ever to remove the salt of the covenant of your God from your grain offering. Present all your offerings with salt."

I'm giving you, your sons, and your daughters as a prescribed portion forever all the raised offerings of the consecrated things that the Israelis offer to the LORD. It's a salt covenant forever before the LORD with you and your descendants with you."

The Arabah and the Jordan River are also a boundary from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah on the east."

Nibshan, Salt City, and En-gedi, for a total of six cities and villages.

From there the boundary proceeded to north of the slope of Beth-hoglah and terminated at the northern bay of the Salt Sea where the Jordan River ends in the south. This was the southern border.

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured the city, killed the people in it, then tore the city to the ground and sowed it with salt.

David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley.

Elisha ordered them, "Bring me a new bowl and put some salt in it." So they brought him what he had requested.

Elisha went out to the springs, threw the salt into them, and declared, "This is what the LORD says: "I have purified these waters. Neither death nor barrenness is to flow from them anymore.'"

Joash executed 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley and captured Sela in battle, renaming it Joktheel, which remains its name to this day.

Zeruiah's son Abishai killed 18,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley.

"Listen to me, Jeroboam and Israel! Don't you know that the LORD God of Israel assigned the kingship over Israel to David and his descendants forever by a salt covenant?

But Amaziah encouraged himself and led his army out to the Salt Valley to kill 10,000 soldiers from Seir.

And be sure that you don't fail to provide their daily needs including young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of Heaven, along with wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as the priests in Jerusalem tell you

up to 100 silver talents, 100 measures of wheat, 100 measures of wine, 100 measures of oil, and salt without limitation.

Tasteless food isn't eaten without salt, is it? Is there any taste in an egg white?

"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

My Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, God of Gracious Love, are my fortress. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Lily of The Covenant," for teaching about his battle with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, when Joab returned and attacked 12,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley.

He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.

"Put salt on Moab for she will surely fall. Her towns will become desolate places, without any inhabitants in them.

Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn't cut. You weren't washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it's certain that you weren't wrapped in strips of cloth.

You are to present them in the LORD's presence, and the priests are to throw salt on them and then present them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

It will support all kinds of living creatures that will thrive abundantly wherever the river flows. There will be a great many fish, because this water will flow there and turn the salt water fresh. As a result, everything will live wherever the river flows.

"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.

"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."

"Now, salt is good. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can its flavor be restored?

My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מכרה 
Mikreh 
Usage: 1

מלח 
Malach 
Usage: 5

מלח 
M@lach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

מלח 
melach 
Usage: 28

מלחה 
M@lechah 
Usage: 3

עיר המּלח 
`Iyr ham-Melach 
city of Salt
Usage: 1

ἅλας 
Halas 
Usage: 1

ἁλίζω 
Halizo 
to salt
Usage: 0

ἁλυκός 
Halukos 
Usage: 1

ἄναλος 
Analos 
Usage: 0

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