[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/salt.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / salt [← S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/S/) # salt «salt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **white grains that make food taste salty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (salt, salts); verb (salt, salts, salted, salting); adjective (salt — salty) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Salt is white grains that make food taste salty. It comes from the sea or from rock in the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#m1) 2) To salt is to put salt on food, or on roads to melt ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#m2) 3) In science, a salt is a chemical made when an acid and a base react; table salt is sodium chloride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#m3) 4) «Take it with a pinch of salt» means do not believe it fully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#m4) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Salt is used in the offerings and the incense. The Salt Sea is the Dead Sea. Lot's wife became a pillar of salt. Salty land is barren wilderness, and there was a City of Salt in Judah. Interpretation: Salt is added to every sacrifice, and tradition still dips bread in salt at the Shabbat table, which is likened to the altar. Lot's wife is seen as punished for looking back at the doomed city. In the primary lessons: In maths: a small amount in a recipe (teaspoons, grams); bags of salt; salt per liter of seawater, a rate. In science: salt dissolves in water; evaporating seawater leaves salt; salt lowers the freezing point of water, so it melts ice on roads. In health: too much salt is bad for you. In stories: «worth his salt» means good at his job. ### examples - But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Torah GEN.19.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x1) - All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea. (Torah GEN.14.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x2) - And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. (Torah EXO.30.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x3) - Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place. (Writings JOB.39.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x4) - and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages. (Prophets JOS.15.62, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x5) - They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food. (Writings JOB.30.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x6) - The recipe needs 2 teaspoons of salt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x7) - A bag holds 1 kg of salt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x8) - How much salt for 3 batches? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x9) - Seawater has 35 grams of salt in each liter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x10) - Salt dissolves when you stir it into water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x11) - Trucks put salt on the roads to melt the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x12) - Leave salty water in the sun and the salt is left behind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x13) - Too much salt is not good for your heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x14) - Take what you read online with a pinch of salt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/#x15) ### note An amount, often per batch or per liter, a rate. Trap: none. Uncountable in cooking: «some salt», «a pinch of salt». When salt dissolves it seems to disappear, but it is still in the water (taste it or evaporate it to see). Salt water and fresh water are different: you cannot drink seawater. ### In the corpora - [All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.355/) - [But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.505/) - [And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.923/) - [And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looked southward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.366/) - [And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.369/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «salt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/salt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.