Bible Concordance
Asphalt (2 Occurrences)Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. (DBY)
Genesis 14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain. (DBY)
Thesaurus
Asphalt (2 Occurrences)... 1. (n.) Alt. of Asphaltum. 2. (vt) To cover with
asphalt; as, to
asphalt a roof;
asphalted streets. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
ASPHALT. as'-falt.
.../a/asphalt.htm - 7kSalt (45 Occurrences)
... Lyon Playfair argues, on scientific grounds, that under the generic name of "salt,"
in certain passages, we are to understand petroleum or its residue asphalt. ...
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Slime (6 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Genesis 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" RV marg., "bitumen").
The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). ...
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Bitumen (3 Occurrences)
... It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.
2. (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons ...
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Noah (55 Occurrences)
... It was divided into rooms or nests, and was three stories high, pitched within and
without with bitumen or "asphalt," of which there are extensive deposits at ...
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Lot (145 Occurrences)
... time in the saline incrustations. She became "a pillar of salt", ie, as
some think, of asphalt. (see SALT.). Lot and his daughters ...
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Daub (3 Occurrences)
... In Exodus 2:3 "daubed it with slime and with pitch" (Hebrew wattachmerah, denominative
of chemar, "bitumen" or "asphalt"), "to daub" has the same meaning as in ...
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Pit (110 Occurrences)
... 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Revelation 20:1, 3). The
slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Genesis 14 ...
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Pitch (25 Occurrences)
... (Genesis 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Genesis
11:3; 14:10; Exodus 2:3), found in pits near the Dead Sea (qv). ...
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Pits (13 Occurrences)
... Diodorus Siculus calls the Dead Sea limne asphalstitis, "lake of asphalt." See SIDDIM;
CITIES OF THE PLAIN. Alfred Ely Day. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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