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The noun halas or hals (salt) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
5: 13 | "You are the salt (alas) of the earth; but if salt (alas) has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. |
Mark 9: 50 | salt (alas) is good; but if salt (alas) has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt (alas) in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." |
Luke
14: 34 | salt (alas) is good; but if salt (alas) has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? |
Colossians
4: 6 | Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt (alas), so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. |
Genesis (LXX)
14: 3 | All these met with one consent at the salt (als) valley; this is now the sea of salt (als). |
19: 26 | And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt (als). |
Leviticus (LXX)
2: 13 | And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt (als); omit not the salt (als) of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt (als) to the Lord your God. |
24: 7 | And ye shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt (als); and these things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord. |
Numbers (LXX)
18: 19 | Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt (als) for ever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee. |
Deuteronomy (LXX)
29: 22 | brimstone and burning salt (als), (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor
rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger) |
Joshua (LXX)
3: 16 | then the waters that came down
from above stopped; there stood one solid heap very far off, as far as the region of Kariathiarim, and the lower part came down to the sea of Araba, the salt (als) sea, till it completely failed; and the people stood opposite Jericho. |
12: 3 | And Araba as far as the sea of Chenereth eastward, and as far as the sea of Araba; the salt (als) sea eastward by the way to Asimoth, from Thaeman under Asedoth Phasga. |
18: 19 | And the termination of the borders shall be at the creek of the salt (als) sea northward to the side of Jordan southward: these are their southern borders. |
Judges (LXX)
9: 45 | And Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and took the city, and slew the people that were in it, and destroyed the city, and sowed it with salt (als). |
Ezekiel (LXX)
16: 4 | And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt (als), neither wast thou swathed in swaddlingbands. |
43: 24 | And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt (als) upon them, and shall offer them up as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord. |
47: 11 | But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt (als). |
Job (LXX)
6: 6 | Shall bread be eaten without salt (als)? or again, is there taste in empty words? |
Psalms (LXX)
59: 2 (60: 2) | when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and smitten in the valley of salt (als) twelve thousand. |
2 Kings (LXX)
2: 20 | And Elisaie said, Bring me a new pitcher, and put salt (als) in it. And they took one, and brought it to him. |
2: 21 | And Elisaie went out to the spring of the waters, and cast salt (als) therein, and says, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be any longer death thence or barren land. |
2 Chronicles (LXX)
13: 5 | Is it not for you to know that the Lord God of Israel has given a king over Israel for ever to David, and to his sons, by a covenant of salt (als)? |
25: 11 | And Amasias strengthened himself, and took his people, and went to the valley of salt (als), and smote there the children of Seir ten thousand. |
1 Esdras (LXX: Esdras A: apocryphal text)
6: 30 | and also corn, salt (als), wine, and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent: |
8: 20 | to the sum of an hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to an hundred cors, and an hundred pieces of wine, and salt (als) in abundance. |
Esra (LXX: Esdras B)
6: 9 | And whatever need there may be, ye shall give both the young of bulls and rams, and lambs for whole-burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt (als), wine, oil: let it be given them according to the word of the priests that are in Jerusalem, day by day whatsoever they shall ask; |
7: 22 | to the amount of a hundred talents of silver, and a hundred measures of wheat, and a hundred baths of wine, and a hundred baths of oil, and salt (als) without reckoning. |
Sirach (LXX)
22: 15 | Sand, and salt (als), and a mass of iron, are easier to bear, than a man without understanding. |
39: 26 | The principal things for the whole use of man's life are water, fire, iron, and salt (als), flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing. |
43: 19 | The hoarfrost also as salt (als) he poureth on the earth, and being congealed, it becometh sharp peaks. |
Wisdom (LXX)
10: 7 | Of whose wickedness, even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt (als) is a monument of an unbelieving soul. |
1 Maccabees (LXX)
10: 29 | And now do I free you, and for your sake I release all the Jews, from tributes, and from the customs of salt (als), and from crown taxes, |
11: 35 | And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes and customs pertaining unto us, as also the salt (als) pits, and the crown taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their relief. |
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