46 occurrences in 13 translations

'Salt' in the Bible

All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

Verse ConceptsDead SeaSaltSea

Prepare expertly blended incense from these; it is to be seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Verse ConceptsPerfumePure ThingsSourness

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingMineralsOfferingsSaltSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiMeat offerings

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

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 shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

Verse ConceptsWilderness Of ZinSouthern Borderborders

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

Verse ConceptsDead Seaborders

The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.

Verse ConceptsDead Sea

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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

That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

Verse ConceptsDead SeaCrossing Into The Promised LandRoses

And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:

Verse ConceptsSalt

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:

Verse ConceptsSouthern Border

And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

Verse ConceptsEastern Borders

And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.

Verse ConceptsSaltSix ThingsSourness

And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

Verse ConceptsSalt

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Verse ConceptsConquestSournesssowing

And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

Verse ConceptsSaltValleysEleven To Nineteen ThousandNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

Verse ConceptsUnused

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

Verse ConceptsBad WaterOvercoming DeathRestoring ThingsGod Healing Our LandHealing And ComfortInfertilitypot

He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

Verse ConceptsSaltValleysTens Of ThousandsGiven Names To This DayNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

Verse ConceptsSaltEleven To Nineteen Thousand

Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

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

And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.

Verse ConceptsSaltTens Of ThousandsTwelve Beings

Now, because that the salt of the palace is our salt, and the nakedness of the king we have no patience to see, therefore we have sent and made known to the king;

Verse ConceptsSaltLosing HonourSourness

And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOilWheatProviding WineOil On SacrificesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And GoatsSourness

Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Verse ConceptsTalentsWeights And Measures, DrySpecific Sums Of MoneySourness

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Verse ConceptsEggsMonotonyWhiteTastelessnessTastelessSournesslegacy

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

Verse ConceptsRootsSaltGod Is HolyTreestoughness

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

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Wilderness

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.

Verse ConceptsPraiseGod Shows His LovingkindnessI Will Praise You With MusicLove And StrengthStrength And Lovestrengh

{To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

Verse ConceptsCarvings Of FlowersMusicDivine DispleasureDispleasure

A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSin Brings ImpoverishmentSournessfruitfulness

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDry PlacesLiving In The WildernessEmpty By NatureSourness

Make Moab a salt marsh,for she will run away;her towns will become a desolation,without inhabitant.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

Verse ConceptsClothWrapping A BabyMidwifeMedicineSaltSanitation, DisinfectionBabiesSevering Body PartsNew BornSournessJesus Birthnegativitycutting

And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSourness

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.

Verse ConceptsFishesKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfThe Water Of LifeGod Giving LifeSweetnessRiversLiveFish

But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

Verse ConceptsSaltRiver BanksMarshesSweetnessSourness

Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,the God of Israel—Moab will be like Sodomand the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place overgrown with weeds,a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.The remnant of My people will plunder them;the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSaltWeedsAmmonitesSurvivors FavouredSournessPets

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.

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

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

Verse ConceptsPeople Eaten By WormNot DyingMaggotsFire Of HellDyingbugsworms

For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Verse ConceptsSaltBurning PeopleSournessSacrifice

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.

Verse ConceptsGoalsSaltPeace, In Christian LivingPersonal ContactTastelessnessSeek PeaceTastelessSournessChemicalsLosing FriendsGood Qualities

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Verse ConceptsDecayPersonal ContactTastelessnessTastelessSournessluck

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Verse ConceptsGrapesBad WaterSourness

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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