Bitumen
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Gen. 11:3, R.V., margin, rendered in the A.V. “slime”), a mineral pitch. With this the ark was pitched (6:14. See also Ex. 2:3.) (See SLIME.)
See also: slime
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