noun · neuter
hala
Strong’sG251
salt
stem hal-once in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἅλς, ἁλός, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G251 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhalce
"salt"
Froma primary word;
King Jamessalt.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
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B (ἁλὸς πολιοῖοRefs 8th c.BC+, sea (generally of shallow water near shore), εἰς ἅλα δῖανRefs 8th c.BC+in sea-water, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἁλὸς πελάγη or πέλαγος, Refs 8th c.BC+; in plural (with a pun on ἅλς A), Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. Latin sal: both masculine and feminine are from the same root.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | hala | hala |
| of, belonging to genitive | hala | hala |
| to, for dative | hala | hala |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
hala1×
Mark 9:50… tine autem artuavi? echavōr en heautoi hala, kai eirēneuavōr en allēloi.… what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace …