Salt (Easton)

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Used to season food (Job 6:6 ), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isaiah 30:24 , 'clean;' in marg. of RSV 'salted'). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Leviticus 2:13 ). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive subsistence from him; and hence he who did so was"> StudyL ı ght .org Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! Not Yet a Member? Click to Sign Up Now! --> --> Bible Study Tools Lang uage Tools Study Lib rary Hist orical Writings Pas toral Resources Per sonal Resources Site Resources Lectionary Calendar Saturday, June 6th, 2026 the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9 video advertismenet advertisement advertisement advertisement Attention! Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda. Click here to join the effort! Home » Bible Dictionaries » Easton's Bible Dictionary » Letter S Bible Dictionaries Salt Easton's Bible Dictionary Search for… Enter query below: or A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Prev Entry Salome Next Entry Salt Sea Resource Toolbox Print Article Additional Links Concordances Nave Topical Bible Salt Scofield Reference Index Salt Thompson Chain Reference Salt, the Salt, Christians As, the Salt The Topic Concordance Salt Treasury of Biblical Knowledge Salt Dead or Salt Sea? Torrey Topical Textbook Salt Dictionaries American Tract Society Salt Bridgeway Bible Dictionary Salt Easton's Bible Dictionary Salt, Valley of Salt, the City of Salt Sea (only first 3 shown) Fausset Bible Dictionary Sea, the Salt Salt, Valley of Salt, City of (only first 3 shown) Holman Bible Dictionary Salt, Valley of Salt, Covenant of Salt, City of (only first 3 shown) Hastings' BibleDictionary Salt, Valley of Salt, City of Salt Sea (only first 3 shown) Hastings' NT Dictionary Salt (2) Salt King James Dictionary Saltness Salted Salt Morrish Bible Dictionary Salt, Valley of Salt, City of Salt Sea (only first 3 shown) 1910 New Catholic Dictionary Salt, Robert, Blessed Salt, Liturgical Use of Salt of the Earth (only first 3 shown) Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary Salt People's Bible Dictionary Sea the Salt Salt Valley of Salt (2) (only first 3 shown) Smith Bible Dictionary Sea The Salt Salt The Valley of Salt The City of (only first 3 shown) Vines' Expository Dictionary Salt, Saltness Wilson's Bible Types Salt Webster Dictionary Smelling Salts Sea Salt Saltness (only first 3 shown) Watson's Theological Dictionary Salt Encyclopedias 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Abraum Salts Epsom Salts George Salting (only first 3 shown) International Standard Bible Encyclopedia City of Salt Covenant of Salt Pillar of Salt (only first 3 shown) Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia Salt McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia City of Salt Covenant of Salt Pillar of Salt (only first 3 shown) The Nuttall Encyclopedia Attic Salt Great Salt Lake Salt Lake City (only first 3 shown) The Catholic Encyclopedia Diocese of Salt Lake Salt The Jewish Encyclopedia Salt Salt Lake City Salt Sea Lexicons ܡܠܰܚ ܡܰܠܳܚܶܐ ἅλα , ἅλας ἁλίζω ἅλς (only first 3 shown) חָמִיץ מָלַח , מָלַח מְלַח (only first 3 shown) Used to season food ( Job 6:6 ), and mixed with the fodder of cattle ( Isaiah 30:24 , "clean;" in marg. of RSV "salted"). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt ( Leviticus 2:13 ). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive subsistence from him; and hence he who did so was bound to look after his host's interests ( Ezra 4:14 , "We have maintenance from the king's palace;" A.V. marg., "We are salted with the salt of the palace;" RSV, "We eat the salt of the palace"). A "covenant of salt" ( Numbers 18:19 ; 2 Chronicles 13:5 ) was a covenant of perpetual obligation. New-born children were rubbed with salt ( Ezekiel 16:4 ). Disciples are likened unto salt, with reference to its cleansing and preserving uses ( Matthew 5:13 ). When Abimelech took the city of Shechem, he sowed the place with salt, that it might always remain a barren soil ( Judges 9:45 ). Sir Lyon Playfair argues, on scientific grounds, that under the generic name of "salt," in certain passages, we are to understand petroleum or its residue asphalt. Thus in Genesis 19:26 he would read "pillar of asphalt;" and in Matthew 5:13 , instead of "salt," "petroleum," which loses its essence by exposure, as salt does not, and becomes asphalt, with which pavements were made. The Jebel Usdum, to the south of the Dead Sea, is a mountain of rock salt about 7 miles long and from 2 to 3 miles wide and some hundreds of feet high.

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