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The verb halizō (to 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 of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can it be salted (halizō)? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. |
Mark
9: 49 | For everyone will be salted (halizō) with fire. |
Leviticus (LXX)
2: 13 | And every gift of your sacrifice shall be salted (halizō) with salt; omit not the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt to the Lord your God. |
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 (halizō) with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddlingbands. |
Tobit (LXX: long version of Sinaiticus)
6: 6 | So cutting open the fish, the young man gathered together the gall and heart and liver; then he roasted and ate some of the fish and kept some of it salted (halizō). |
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