Halas means “salt” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H217 — ur (“fire”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G217 ἅλας (halas) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. halas (hal'-as) n. 1. salt 2. (figuratively) prudence (i.e. wisdom, sound judgement) It has 19 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include salt. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
halas (hal'-as) n. 1. salt 2. (figuratively) prudence (i.e. wisdom, sound judgement) [from G251] KJV: salt Root(s): G251
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G217. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
salt
Usage: ἅλας (T, ἅλα), -ατος, τό, late form of cl. ἅλς, -ος, ὁ (MM, VGT, see word), [in LXX chiefly for מְלַח ;] salt, lit, and figuratively: Mat.5:13, Mrk.9:50 Luk.14:34; like cl. ἅλες, wit, of wisdom and grace in speech: Col.4:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render halas, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G217 (ἅλας) appears 16 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
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.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
10 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt; omit not the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt to the Lord your God.
And ye shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt; and these things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord.
And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zerubbabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;
to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred cors, and a hundred pieces of wine, and other things in abundance.
Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, are easier to bear, Than a man without understanding.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G217.
And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt; omit not the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt to the Lord your God.
And ye shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt; and these things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord.
And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and took the city, and slew the people that were in it, and destroyed the city, and sowed it with salt.
And Elisha said, Bring me a new pitcher, and put salt in it. And they took one, and brought it to him.
And Elisha went out to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and says, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be any longer death thence or barren land.
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole burnt offerings to the Lord.
But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.
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.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
and out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zerubbabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;
to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred cors, and a hundred pieces of wine, and other things in abundance.
Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, are easier to bear, Than a man without understanding.
The principal things for the whole use of man’s life Are water, fire, iron, and salt, Flour of wheat, honey, milk, And the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, And being congealed, it becometh sharp peaks.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G217, grouped by book.
Halas (Strong's G217) is a Greek word most simply glossed "salt". halas (hal'-as) n. 1. salt 2. (figuratively) prudence (i.e. wisdom, sound judgement)
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G217 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G217 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as salt. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 10 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G217, with linked reader references where each row is available.