τίνι (tini) in Matthew 5:13: Dative Singular Neuter

Pronoun: the form points to a person, group, thing, or question within the clause.

Dative: marks the pronoun in a means, reference, or indirect-object role as the clause requires.

Person: read person only where the morphology label marks it.

Singular: the form points to one grammatical referent where context requires.

Gender: this pronoun form should not be used to make a theological claim from grammar alone.

Will it be salted

The rhetorical question in Matthew 5:13

Asks by what means useless salt could be restored.

Do not make the question supply an answer that the verse does not state.

Medium: rhetorical question

Dative question word. asks the means of salting. Attached to will it be salted. Governed by the rhetorical question in Matthew 5:13. Read with with what will it be salted.

What does the question ask? It asks with what the salt will be salted if it loses usefulness.

Direct: The dative question word supports with what.

This occurrence must be read within Matthew 5:13, not as a standalone word study.

The witness reads τίνι in Matthew 5:13.

The form is an interrogative pronoun, so it asks about the means rather than naming the means.

Its dative form fits the question with the passive verb will be salted.

The question presses the seriousness of salt losing its proper function.

The form supports Jesus warning by making the loss appear unrecoverable within the image.

Use it to show that the question is rhetorical and means-focused.

Do not turn the interrogative into a hidden answer about methods or remedies.