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PITCH

A naturally occurring combustible substance used in antiquity as an adhesive and a sealant. The related English words “asphalt” and “tar” reflect something of the nature of the material, although they indicate manufactured materials. Pitch apparently was common in the Dead Sea area but was also available to other regions and was used by different peoples. Words for pitch appear in both Akkadian and Arabic, and references to its use exist in the Babylonian flood story. In the biblical narrative, Noah was to cover the ark with pitch (Heb. kōper) to seal it (Gen. 6:14), and Moses’ mother used pitch to seal the little “ark” that would hold him during his journey down the Nile (Exod. 2:3). Isaiah uses streams of pitch to describe the burning judgment that Edom would endure, a judgment reminiscent of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa. 34:9).

Walter E. Brown






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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