The word in Scripture

Salt in the Bible

The word salt appears 40 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Salt preserves, seasons, and purifies. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What salt means in the Bible

Salt preserves, seasons, and purifies.

Where the word salt appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word salt appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.”Genesis 14:3

“But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”Genesis 19:26

“For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.”Jeremiah 17:6

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”Matthew 5:13

“For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.”Mark 9:49

“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?”Luke 14:34

“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”Colossians 4:6

“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”James 3:12