ἁλυκός
halykós · G252 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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salty
(Derivative of ἅλς ‘salt,’) Consisting of or pertaining to salt
ExamplesJames 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
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In the other Testament 1 word
- מֶלַח melach · H4417 · salt
- Hebrew noun denoting the mineral substance salt, rendered by Greek adjective meaning briny/salty in LXX contexts describing salt-affected land or bodies of water.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Salty5.26
- In James 3:12, James asks rhetorically, “Nor can salt (halykón) water produce fresh,” using the adjective for water that has a salty quality, contrasted with fresh water.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ή,, salt (equivalent to ἁλμυρός): Jas 3:12. ((Hippoicr., Aristophanes) Plato, Tim., p.…
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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