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Etymology
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)
Pronunciation
Noun
covenant of salt (plural covenants of salt)
- (archaic, idiomatic) A long-lasting agreement.
1658, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, page 306:... God gave the Kingdom unto David for ever, or by a Covenant of Salt.
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