ἁλισθήσεται; (alisthesetai) in Matthew 5:13: Verb Third Person Singular Future Passive Indicative
ἁλισθήσεται; (alisthesetai) in Matthew 5:13
Textual Witness
The witness reads ἁλισθήσεται; in Matthew 5:13.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Keeps the warning inside the salt-restoration question.
How To Communicate It
Use it to explain the force of the rhetorical question without turning passive voice into a doctrinal claim.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Keep the form tied to Matthew 5:13.
- Do not detach it from the rhetorical question in Matthew 5:13.
- Do not use morphology alone to build a complete doctrinal claim.
What Does The Label Mean?
Verb: the form names an action, state, or verbal relationship in the clause.
Future: read the tense and aspect from this occurrence, with the sentence controlling the exact force.
Passive: voice should be read from the morphology label and clause context.
Indicative: mood should serve the sentence rather than override it.
Person: the form includes person marking, so the clause identifies the grammatical subject through the verb ending.
Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.
Singular: the form is marked for a single grammatical subject or referent.
Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.
What The Form Does In This Verse
With what
The rhetorical question in Matthew 5:13
Completes the question about whether useless salt can be made salty again.
Do not read the passive verb as naming a specific human agent of restoration.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Medium: rhetorical question verb
Future passive question verb. asks whether the salt can be salted again. Attached to with what. Governed by the rhetorical question in Matthew 5:13. Read with with what will it be salted.
What happens after salt loses its savor? Jesus asks how it will be salted again, pressing the warning.
Direct: The form supports will be salted.
This occurrence must be read within Matthew 5:13, not as a standalone word study.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads ἁλισθήσεται; in Matthew 5:13.
The lemma means to salt or season, and here it remains inside the salt metaphor.
The future passive form asks what will be done to the salt after the condition is stated.
The question exposes the uselessness of salt that no longer functions as salt.
The form fits the warning by keeping the image focused on usefulness and loss.
Use it to explain the force of the rhetorical question without turning passive voice into a doctrinal claim.
Do not infer from passive voice alone that Jesus is describing a complete theological process.