¶ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
¶ Salt is good: but if the salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
1611 marginal noteMat. 5.13.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of season, meaning to prepare, mature, or make suitable.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Luke 14:34
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
¶ Salt is good: but if the salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
1611 marginal noteMat. 5.13.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Let your speech bee alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how yee ought to answere euery man.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Mixed or sprinkled with something that gives a relish; tempered; moderated; qualified; matured; dried and hardened.