38 occurrences

'Salt' in the Bible

All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

Verse ConceptsDead SeaSaltSea

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.

Verse ConceptsPerfumePure ThingsSourness

And every meal offering is to be salted with salt; your meal offering is not to be without the salt of the agreement of your God: with all your offerings give salt.

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingMineralsOfferingsSaltSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiMeat offerings

All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priestsGod, The EternalOffspringThe Eternal CovenantFood For Priests DefinedSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiGod’s Covenant With The Levites

Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,

Verse ConceptsWilderness Of ZinSouthern Borderborders

And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

Verse ConceptsDead Seaborders

As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Verse ConceptsDead Sea

And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

Verse ConceptsBrimstoneCities of the plainMineralsSodom And GomorrahSulphurWasteEcological ConcernsGod Angry With The NationsSourness

Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

Verse ConceptsDead SeaCrossing Into The Promised LandRoses

And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east, and to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Verse ConceptsSalt

Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:

Verse ConceptsSouthern Border

And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan:

Verse ConceptsEastern Borders

And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.

Verse ConceptsSaltSix ThingsSourness

And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south.

Verse ConceptsSalt

And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

Verse ConceptsConquestSournesssowing

And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

Verse ConceptsSaltValleysEleven To Nineteen ThousandNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him.

Verse ConceptsUnused

Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.

Verse ConceptsBad WaterOvercoming DeathRestoring ThingsGod Healing Our LandHealing And ComfortInfertilitypot

He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

Verse ConceptsSaltValleysTens Of ThousandsGiven Names To This DayNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,

Verse ConceptsSaltEleven To Nineteen Thousand

Is it not clear to you that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the rule over Israel to David and to his sons for ever, by an agreement made with salt?

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priestsCovenant, God's with DavidGod’s Covenant With The LevitesGod's Covenant Is Everlastingcovenant

Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;

Verse ConceptsSaltTens Of ThousandsTwelve Beings

And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOilWheatProviding WineOil On SacrificesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And GoatsSourness

Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.

Verse ConceptsTalentsWeights And Measures, DrySpecific Sums Of MoneySourness

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

Verse ConceptsEggsMonotonyWhiteTastelessnessTastelessSournesslegacy

They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Verse ConceptsRootsSaltGod Is HolyTreestoughness

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Wilderness

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSin Brings ImpoverishmentSournessfruitfulness

For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDry PlacesLiving In The WildernessEmpty By NatureSourness

And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSourness

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

Verse ConceptsSaltRiver BanksMarshesSweetnessSourness

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSaltWeedsAmmonitesSurvivors FavouredSournessPets

You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.

Verse ConceptsBeing A Lightdisciples, characteristics ofDecayResponsibility, For God's WorldSaltSanctification, Means And ResultsTastePersonal ContactSending Things AwayTastelessnessRestoring ThingsTastelessSournessMoral Decay

Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.

Verse ConceptsGoalsSaltPeace, In Christian LivingPersonal ContactTastelessnessSeek PeaceTastelessSournessChemicalsLosing FriendsGood Qualities

For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?

Verse ConceptsDecayPersonal ContactTastelessnessTastelessSournessluck

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

Verse ConceptsGrapesBad WaterSourness

Related Words

Bible Theasaurus

Curry (1 instance)
Garlic (1 instance)
Saltiness (1 instance)
Salty (7 instances)

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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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