covenant of salt

Language: en

Meaning: (archaic,idiomatic)A long-lasting agreement.1658, Thomas Browne,Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths‎[1], page306:... God gave the Kingdom unto David for ever, or by aCovenant of Salt.

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