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Concise Bible Dictionary: P
By:
George A. Morrish
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Chris Genthree
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Naturally-formed Bitumen collected at the Dead Sea shore.
A kind of bitumen. Noah covered the ark with pitch inside and outside (
Gen. 6:14
14
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. (Genesis 6:14)
). The ark in which the infant Moses was put, was likewise thus rendered waterproof (
Ex. 2:3
3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Exodus 2:3)
). Among God’s judgments on the earth the streams are turned into pitch, and the land into burning pitch (
Isa. 34:9
9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. (Isaiah 34:9)
). Different words are employed in the Hebrew of
Genesis 6:14
14
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. (Genesis 6:14)
from the other passages. Noah was to pitch (
kaphar
, “to cover,” often translated “atonement”) the ark with pitch (
kopher
, translated “ransom”) as if to teach that Noah and those with him could be saved only by being covered with a ransom, and which would introduce them to a new earth.
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Area of bituminous wells S. of Mosul. Series of bitumen storage pools.
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