Leviticus 2:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְכָל־קָרְבַּ֣ן מִנְחָתְךָ֮ בַּמֶּ֣לַח תִּמְלָח֒ וְלֹ֣א תַשְׁבִּ֗ית מֶ֚לַח בְּרִ֣ית אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ מֵעַ֖ל מִנְחָתֶ֑ךָ עַ֥ל כָּל־קָרְבָּנְךָ֖ תַּקְרִ֥יב מֶֽלַח׃

Transliteration

And all korban minchatcha with hamelach timlach, and not tashbit melach berit elohecha from upon minchatecha; upon all korbancha takriv melach.

Grammar Details

*korban*: noun, masculine, singular construct - offering of
*minchatcha*: noun, feminine, singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your grain offering
*hamelach*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - the salt
*timlach*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall salt
*tashbit*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall cease/stop/eliminate
*melach*: noun, masculine, singular construct - salt of
*berit*: noun, feminine, singular construct - covenant of
*elohecha*: noun, masculine, plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
*minchatecha*: noun, feminine, singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your grain offering
*korbancha*: noun, masculine, singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your offering
*takriv*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall offer/bring near

Word Meanings

*berit*: covenant/agreement/pledge
*melach berit*: salt of covenant/covenant salt

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 43:24 : 24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
2 Chr 13:5 : 5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Num 18:19 : 19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Matt 5:13 : 13 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.
Mark 9:49-50 : 49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. 50 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.
Ezra 7:22 : 22 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ezek 43:24
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24And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Mark 9:49-50
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49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
50Salt 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.
Lev 2:11-12
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11No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
12As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
Num 18:19
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19All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Luke 14:34
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34Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Lev 2:4-9
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4And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
5And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
6Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
7And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
9And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Lev 2:14-16
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14And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
15And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
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Num 28:2
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Deut 12:27
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27And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Lev 2:1
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1And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
Num 15:3
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3And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
Lev 7:9
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Num 28:31
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Lev 22:25
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Lev 6:21
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Lev 23:14
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14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 17:8
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Num 28:24
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24After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Exod 34:25
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Num 29:39
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Deut 12:17
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Exod 23:18
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18Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
Num 29:37
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Lev 22:20
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20But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Lev 6:23
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23For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
Num 18:9
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Num 6:15
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Num 28:9-10
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9And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
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Deut 12:13
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13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
Exod 30:9
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9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
Lev 22:23
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2 Chr 13:5
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Num 15:19
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19Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:18
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Lev 7:37
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Matt 5:13
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Lev 6:14
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Num 29:18
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