Pitch in the Bible

(Something like tar) An opaque mineral used as a plaster and cement

  • Isaiah 34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Bible Encyclopedia for PITCH.

Used by Noah, in the ark (ship)

  • Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Definition of pitch

In making the basket in which Moses was hidden

  • Exodus 2:3 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.

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See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Pitch.

 
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