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asphalt

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

pitch / bitumen

Note

Natural bitumen, the Greek cognate (5, 57): English "asphalt" keeps the substance (Gen 11:3; 14:10). The Masoretic version's כֹּפֶר is "pitch"

Rulings

5, 57

Declared to share English with

Occurrences (3)

6:14 Make therefore for yourself a chest from squared wood; nests you shall make the chest, and you shall asphalt it from within and from outside with the asphalt.

11:3 And a human said to his neighbor, "Come, let us brick bricks and bake them with fire." And the brick came to be to them for stone, and asphalt was to them the clay.

14:10 Now the valley, the briny one, was wells of asphalt. Now the king of Sodom fled, and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there; but those left behind fled to the mountain country.