Ezra 4:14
that ..................... sustain <04415 01768> [have maintenance, etc. Chal. are salted with the salt of the palace.]
Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life, (Ecclus. 39:26 or 31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt," meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship.
not <03809> [and it was.]
Ezra 6:9
oxen <08450 01123> [young bullocks.]
lambs <0563> [lambs.]
wheat <02591> [wheat.]
salt <04416> [salt.]
be given <01934 03052> [let it be given.]
Ezra 7:22
cors <03734> [measures. Chal. cors.]
baths ... wine ... baths <01325 02562> [baths of wine.]
salt <04416> [salt.]
