Dictionary of Bible Themes A basic commodity, used for seasoning and preserving food in biblical times. Leviticus 2:13The importance of salt in the sacrificial system See also Exodus 30:34-35Ezra 6:6-10; 7:21-23 Ezekiel 43:22-24 The addition of salt to incense was probably to make it burn more easily and quickly Numbers 18:17-19The covenant of salt See also Leviticus 2:132 Chronicles 13:4-5 Matthew 5:13 Believers as the salt of the earth See also Mark 9:50This teaching reflects the importance of salt as a preservative and seasoning. Luke 14:34-35Zephaniah 2:9 Salt as a symbol of desolation See also Deuteronomy 29:23-25Job 39:5-6 Psalms 107:33-34 Jeremiah 17:5-8 Jeremiah 48:8-9 Salt sown on arable land to render it worthless See also Judges 9:42-45Genesis 19:23-26 Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt Ezekiel 47:11The Dead Sea an important source of salt James 3:9-12Salt water See also Ezekiel 47:7-9Job 30:4 Salt herbs Job 6:6-7Practical uses of salt Salt used as a seasoning Ezekiel 16:4Salt rubbed on newborn infants 2 Kings 2:19-22Symbolic use of salt Mark 9:49Figurative use of salt See also Ezra 4:14Colossians 4:6 The literal translation of the Hebrew phrase used here is "... we eat the salt of the palace ..." Joshua 12:3Salt in place-names The Dead Sea See also Genesis 14:3The Dead Sea was known as "the Salt Sea" or "the Sea of the Arabah" in biblical times. Numbers 34:3-4,10-12Deuteronomy 3:16-17 Joshua 3:15-16; 15:2-3,5-6; 18:19 2 Samuel 8:13 See also The Valley of Salt 2 Kings 14:71 Chronicles 18:12 pp 2Ch 25:11 Joshua 15:62See also The City of Salt 1350 covenant with Israel's priests4293 water 4306 minerals 4466 herbs and spices 5546 speech 5655 birth 6130 corruption 7322 burnt offering 7368 grain offering 7386 incense 7435 sacrifice, in OT |
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