The Covenant of Salt / As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay Trumbull

• "Sabbath," a recognized institution before Moses, [158].
• Sacrifice on threshold, [47].
• Sacrifices, salt in, [83]-96.
• "Sacrificial essence, the," [91].
• Saffaride dynasty, founder of, [27].
• Saffaride Kaleefs, story of the origin of the dynasty of, [26].
• St. Augustine: cited, [89].
• St. Peter, fresh water changed to salt by, [59].
• Saïs, annual festival at, [92].
• Salary, derivation of word, [68].
• Saline injections, [40].
• Salt: as preservative, [14];
  • indispensable in food, [14];
  • spoken of as an accompaniment of bread, [14];
  • a vital element, [18];
  • covenant of, perpetual and unalterable, [18];
  • of the covenant not to be lacking, [18];
  • in many lands the possession of government, [19];
  • bread and, [23]-34;
  • nothing eatable without, [23];
  • on a common table, [29] f.;
  • importance of, to a covenant, [32];
  • representing blood, [37]-50;
  • and salts, [39];
  • discovery of as article of diet, [41];
  • as antidote for snake-bite, [43];
  • as saline ingredient of blood, [43];
  • curative powers of, [43] f.;
  • supply of, cut off from Armenians, [43];
  • strewn on
  • threshold, [47];
  • representing life, [53]-70;
  • and sun, [73]-76;
  • in sacrifices, [83]-96;
  • in the Eucharist, [89];
  • as sacrificial essence, [91];
  • leaping up in fire, [95];
  • in divination, [99]-106;
  • in exorcism, [99]-106;
  • not to be carried out of house after dark, [101];
  • on a corpse in Scotland, [103];
  • carried across threshold upon entering new house, [106];
  • faithlessness to, [109]-114;
  • and ginger root given as wedding-cake, [124];
  • water mocking thirst, [135].
• Salt-cellar as point of division on family-table, [126].
• Salt-making, ordinary process of, [75].
• Salted cake, essential in sacrificial offering, [94].
• Salted water, drinking of, as a covenant, [48].
• "Salted with fire," [65].
• "Salting a freshman," [128].
• Salts, salt and, [39].
• Salts-hunger, death from, [42].
• Samaria, woman of, reference to, [157].
• Samoyedes dipping flesh in blood before eating it, [38].
• Sanskrit roots, gain of looking among, [4].
• Savor of death, [133]-138.
• Savor of life, [133]-138.
• Sayce, Professor A. H., reference to, [74].
• Schrader, O.: cited, [74].
• Schultz, Stephen: cited, [28], [29] f., [30].
• Scipio, reference to, [68].
• Scotland, salt on a corpse in, [103].
• Scott, Sir Walter, quotation from, [127].
• Seal killing by Esquimaux, [39].
• Seasoned: with life, [67];
  • with salt, [67].
• Second requirement of God's covenant, [153].
• Sentiment valuable in research, [5].
• Septuagint, The, reference to, [33], [84].
• Settling dispute by salt and water, [124].
• Shallow, Justice, reference to, [54].
• Shewbread, salt on table of, [84].
• Shooter's "Kafirs:" cited, [60].
• Sign of the cross, reference to, [89].
• Significance of bread, [79], [80].
• "Sin-eaters," reference to, [105].
• "Sitting below the salt," [126].
• Sixth requirement of God's covenant, [162].
• Skeat: cited, [74].
• Smith, George Adam, quotation from, [134].
• Smith, W. Robertson: cited, [14], [24], [48], [59], [62], [137].
• Snake-bite, salt as antidote for, [43].
• Sodom destroyed because of faithlessness to salt, [112].
• "Son" and "sun" from same root, [73].
• Spencer, Herbert: cited, [123], [126].
• Spilling of salt, [138].
• Stanley, Henry M., reference to, [46] f.
• Stealing, Arab estimate of, [166].
• Stevens, Dr. W.: cited, [43].
• Stewart's "Manual of Physiology:" reference to, [42];
  • quotation from, [123].
• Strassburg University, reference to, [128].
• Strickland, Agnes: cited [126].
• Student, in Journal of Asiatic Society, giving salt to, [127].
• "Studies in Oriental Social Life," [14], [23], [24], [58].
• Substitute together with reality, [117]-120.
• Substituting salt for blood, [37].
• Sun, salt and, [73]-76.
• Supply of salt cut off from Armenians, [43].
• Survey of Western Palestine, reference to, [32].
• Swearing by salt, [54].
• Sword, salt on blade of, [49].
• Syrophoenician woman, reference to, [88].

• Table: of shewbread, salt on, [84];
  • an altar, [85];
  • customs among Jews, [87].
• Tacitus: cited, [135].
• Tamerlane, Mongol-Tartar chieftain reference to, [109].
• Tatar tradition of salt, [41].
• Taxation in Egypt, [130].
• Tears, salt shown in, [40].
• Ten Commandments, division of, [159] f.
• Thirst, salt water mocking, [135].
• Thomson, W. M.: cited, [24];
  • quotation from, [37].
• "Three," value as sacred number, [103].
• Threshold: pouring blood on, [47];
  • Bible carried across, in new house, [76];
  • salt and candle carried across, [76];
  • salt scattered at, [100];
  • salt and Bible carried across, in new house, [106];
  • salt and bread under, [106].
• "Threshold Covenant," reference to, [6], [47], [106], [117], [128], [130].
• Torture: depriving of salt as a means of, [42];
  • treachery, Oriental summit of, [111];
  • Bible summit of, [113].
• "Treaty," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• Truce between enemies, sharing water as, [23] f.
• Twain made one, [7].

• Van Lennep: cited, [61].
• Various kinds of covenant, [9].
• Vegetable: diet used by those who take salt, [38];
  • life, salt destructive of, [133].
• Virgil, reference to, [94].
• Volney: cited, [31].

• Warburton: cited, [24].
• Water: sharing of, [23];
  • fountain of, cured, [58];
  • not to be dipped from Mediterranean Sea, [70].
• Wellhausen: cited, [95].
• Wetzstein: cited, [24].
• Wheeler's "History of India:" cited, [34].
• Wilkinson's "Ancient Egypt:" cited, [93].
• Wine: representing blood, [117];
  • and salt, [119].
• Wit, salt equivalent of, [67].
• Woman of Samaria, reference to, [157].
• Words: ideas precede, [3];
  • limitations and imperfectness of, [3];
  • customs precede, [9].

• Yakoob, a robber chieftain, [26].
• "Youth, salt of," [54].
• Yudhishthira, reference to, [34].

• Zerubbabel, rebuilding of the temple by, [19].

SCRIPTURAL INDEX

GENESIS.
TEXT	PAGE
2 : 24	[164]
4 : 20, 21	[161]
9 : 4	[41]
9 : 6	[163]
17 : 1-14	[8]
17 : 14	[114]
18 : 1-8	[120]
19 : 24, 25	[66]
24 : 12-14	[24]
31 : 54	[120]
45 : 8	[161]
49 : 11	[117]
EXODUS.
3 : 8, 17	[80]
9 : 23, 24	[66]
13 : 5	[80]
20 : 1-17	[145]
20 : 2	[150], [151]
23 : 19	[88]
23 : 19; 34 : 26	[62]
24 : 7, 8	[148]
25 : 22	[145]
26 : 33, 34	[143]
29 : 40	[119]
30 : 6, 26	[145]
30 : 34, 35	[84]
31 : 7	[145]
32 : 15	[145]
33 : 3	[80]
34 : 26	[88]
34 : 28	[149]
34 : 29	[145]
39 : 35	[145]
40 : 3, 5, 21	[145]
40 : 20	[149]
LEVITICUS.
2 : 13	[18]
2 : 13	[83]
7 : 11-14	[120]
10 : 2	[66]
13 : 52-57	[66]
17 : 11	[54]
19 : 9, 10	[88]
20 : 24	[80]
23 : 12, 13	[119]
23 : 15-20	[120]
NUMBERS.
4 : 5	[145]
7 : 89	[145]
13 : 27	[80]
14 : 8	[80]
14 : 44	[145]
15 : 5, 10	[119]
16 : 13, 14	[80]
18 : 19	[17]
21 : 2, 3	[137]
23 : 19	[168]
28 : 14	[119]
DEUTERONOMY.
5 : 1-22	[145]
6 : 3	[80]
9 : 15	[145]
10 : 8	[145]
11 : 9	[80]
12 : 23	[54]
14 : 21	[62]
14 : 21	[88]
17 : 2-7	[114]
23 : 3, 4	[24]
24 : 19-21	[88]
26 : 9, 15	[80]
27 : 3	[80]
29 : 23	[133]
31 : 9, 25, 26	[145]
31 : 20	[80]
JOSHUA.
3 : 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17	[145]
4 : 7, 9, 18	[145]
4 : 16	[145]
5 : 6	[80]
6 : 6, 8	[145]
7 : 11-15	[114]
8 : 33	[145]
JUDGES.
2 : 20-23	[114]
9 : 45	[134]
17 : 10	[161]
20 : 27	[145]
1 SAMUEL.
4 : 3-5	[145]
25 : 10, 11	[24]
2 SAMUEL.
15 : 24	[145]
1 KINGS.
3 : 15	[145]
6 : 19	[145]
8 : 1, 6	[145]
18 : 4	[24]
2 KINGS.
2 : 19-22	[58]
18 : 11, 12	[114]
1 CHRONICLES.
15 : 25, 26, 28, 29	[145]
16 : 6, 37	[145]
17 : 1	[145]
22 : 19	[145]
28 : 2, 18	[145]
2 CHRONICLES.
5 : 2, 7	[145]
13 : 5	[18]
EZRA.
4 : 14	[20]
6 : 8-10	[20]
7 : 21, 22	[83]
7 : 22	[20]
JOB.
1 : 21	[167]
22 : 7	[24]
PSALMS.
41 : 9	[111]
50 : 5, 16	[142]
55 : 19-21	[114]
107 : 33, 34	[134]
ECCLESIASTES.
39 : 26	[117]
50 : 15	[117]
ISAIAH.
24 : 5, 6	[114]
34 : 4	[136]
51 : 6	[136]
51 : 16	[136]
65 : 11	[85]
65 : 17	[136]
66 : 22	[136]
JEREMIAH.
3 : 16	[145]
11 : 5	[80]
11 : 9-11	[114]
17 : 6	[134]
32 : 22	[80]
34 : 17-20	[114]
EZEKIEL.
16 : 4	[61]
20 : 6, 15	[20]
41 : 22	[85]
43 : 21-24	[83]
47 : 11	[134]
HOSEA.
1 : 10	[142]
6 : 4-7	[114]
8 : 1	[114]
ZEPHANIAH.
2 : 9	[134]
MALACHI.
1 : 6, 7	[85]
3 : 2, 3	[66]
1 MACCABEES.
6 : 34	[117]
MATTHEW.
3 : 12	[66]
5 : 3 to 7 : 27	[170]
5 : 13	[65]
5 : 13, 14	[75]
7 : 19	[66]
10 : 8	[75]
10 : 42	[24]
15 : 27	[88]
22 : 36-40	[173]
25 : 40	[169]
26 : 26-28	[119]
28 : 19	[156]
28 : 20	[151]
MARK.
7 : 7-11	[137]
9 : 41	[24]
9 : 49	[65], [83]
9 : 50	[65]
14 : 22-24	[119]
LUKE.
3 : 17	[66]
14 : 34	[65]
22 : 19, 20	[119]
JOHN.
1 : 4	[76]
4 : 9	[24]
4 : 24	[157]
13 : 18	[111]
13 : 34	[169]
15 : 6	[66]
ROMANS.
1 : 31	[114]
9 : 26	[142]
12 : 1	[67]
13 : 1	[161]
13 : 4	[163]
13 : 10	[173]
1 CORINTHIANS.
3 : 13-15	[66]
4 : 7	[167]
11 : 23-25	[119]
2 CORINTHIANS.
2 : 16	[133]
12 : 14	[67]
COLOSSIANS.
3 : 5	[171]
4 : 6	[67]
2 TIMOTHY.
2 : 19	[157]
HEBREWS.
9 : 19	[148]
1 PETER.
1 : 7	[66]
2 PETER.
3 : 10-12	[136]
3 : 13	[136]
1 JOHN.
2 : 3	[174]
4 : 16	[174]
4 : 20, 21	[172]