noun · neuter
halatem
Strong’sG217
salt
stem halat-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
ἅλας (T, ἅλα), -ατος, τό, late form of cl. ἅλς, -ος, ὁ (MM, VGT, s.v.),
[in LXX chiefly for מְלַח;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G217 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhal'-as
salt; figuratively, prudence
Fromfrom G251;
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
={ἅλς}, salt, NT+4th c.BC+
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 | halatem6×ἅλας | halateim |
| of, belonging to genitive | halateu | halateiu |
| to, for dative | halate1×ἅλατι | halatei |
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
halate is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
halatem“salt”subject or objectdirect singular6×
Matthew 5:13Vis avō tem halatem tau gēau; ean de tem halatem …You are the salt of the earth. But if the …
Matthew 5:13… halatem tau gēau; ean de tem halatem mōraniteia, en tine haliziti? eis oudenem …… of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it …
Mark 9:50kalem tem halatem; ean de tem halatem analem geneteia, …Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will …
Mark 9:50kalem tem halatem; ean de tem halatem analem geneteia, en tine autem artuavi? …Salt is good, but if the salt …
Luke 14:34Kalem oun tem halatem; ean de kai tem halatem mōraniteia, …Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will …
Luke 14:34… tem halatem; ean de kai tem halatem mōraniteia, en tine artuiti?Salt is good, but if the salt …
halate“salt”to, fordative singular1×
Colossians 4:6tos logos vu pantote en charita, halate artuorēntos, oidarē pōs datō vin heno …… speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how …