ἁλίζω
halízō · G233 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to apply salt to something, to restore the flavor to salt
(A causative derivative of ἅλς ‘salt,’) To cause something to taste salty
ExamplesMatthew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by people.
Mark 9:49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin+ τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀρτύω artýō · G741 · to season
- Greek verb meaning to season or prepare food with condiments; broader than ἁλίζω (which is specifically salting) but can overlap in the culinary sense of seasoning
In the other Testament 1 word
- מָלַח mâlach · H4414 · to salt, to apply salt, to rub with salt
- Hebrew verb for salting or seasoning with salt, the direct translation equivalent used in contexts of applying salt (e.g., Lev 2:13, Ezek 16:4)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To apply salt to something, to restore the flavor to salt5.28
- In Mark 9:49, Jesus says, “for everyone will be salted (halisthésetai) with fire,” using the verb figuratively for the act of applying salt, here as a metaphor for a purifying trial.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (ἅλς, ἁλός, salt); to salt, season with salt, sprinkle with salt; only the future…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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