covenant of salt

noun

A long-lasting agreement.

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Meanings

nouncovenant of salt (plural covenants of salt)

plural covenants of salt

  1. archaicidiomaticA long-lasting agreement.

    ... God gave the Kingdom unto David for ever, or by a Covenant of Salt.

    1658, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, page 306

Origin

A Biblical reference, as in Leviticus: "every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt." (Leviticus 2:13)

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Translations

Hungarian sószövetség
  • sószövetséga long-lasting agreement
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