G217 – halas – ἅλας – salt
- Strong’s ID:
- G217
- Greek Word:
- ἅλας
- Transliteration:
- halas
- Pronunciation:
- hal’-as
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 8
- Search:
- Find “halas” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G251; salt; figuratively, prudence:—salt.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) salt with which food is seasoned and sacrifices are sprinkled
2) those kinds of saline matter used to fertilise arable land
3) salt is a symbol of lasting concord, because it protects food from putrefaction and preserves it unchanged. Accordingly, in the solemn ratification of compacts, the orientals were, and are to this day, accustomed to partake of salt together
4) wisdom and grace exhibited in speech
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.