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adjective

halukem

Greekἁλυκός (halukos)

Strong’sG252

salty, saltine, bitter

stem haluk-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

salt

What it means

ἁλυκός, -ή, -όν

(< ἅλς), [in LXX for מֵלַח, שִׂדִּים;]

salt: Ja 3:12.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G252 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhal-oo-kos'

briny

Fromfrom G251;

King Jamessalt.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativehalukoshalukashalukemἁλυκὸνhalukoishalukaishalukeim
object accusativehalukonhalukanhalukoinhalukain
direct address vocativehalukorhalukarhalukoirhalukair
of, belonging to genitivehalukouhalukauhalukeuhalukoiuhalukaiuhalukeiu
to, for dativehalukohalukahalukehalukoihalukaihalukei

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
halukstem+oaegender+smnruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

haluk 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

halukem“salt”subject or objectdirect singular

James 3:12“salt”mē dunetō, adelfoir mu, sukas elaiain poiara ē ampelas sukeim? oute halukem glukuem poiara hudōrem.My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.