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.

See BITUMEN

⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Pitch.