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.
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Pitch
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Jeremiah 6:3
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
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חָנָה
chânâh · khaw-naw'
9 times translated as this KJV form143 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege)
Strong's KJV usage: abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 1:53Strong's last: Numbers 3:35
Open full H2583 profile →זֶפֶת
zepheth · zeh'-feth
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
Strong's KJV usage: pitch.
Strong's first: Exodus 2:3Strong's last: Isaiah 34:9
Open full H2203 profile →כָּפַר
kâphar · kaw-far'
1 times translated as this KJV form102 total Strong's occurrences
to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel
Strong's KJV usage: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 6:14Strong's last: Genesis 6:14
Open full H3722 profile →כֹּפֶר
kôpher · ko'-fer
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price
Strong's KJV usage: bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 6:14Strong's last: Genesis 6:14
Open full H3724 profile →קוּם
qûwm · koom
1 times translated as this KJV form629 total Strong's occurrences
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, accomplish, × be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, × be dim, endure, × enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, × but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-) rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-) stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, -rising).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 4:20Strong's last: Joshua 4:20
Open full H6965 profile →תָּקַע
tâqaʻ · taw-kah'
1 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
Strong's KJV usage: blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, × suretiship, thrust.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 6:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 6:3
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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
H2203
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
H2203
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
English meaning and historical usage.
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pitch
PITCH, noun [Latin pix; Gr. most probably named from its thickness or inspissation; Latin figo.]
1. A thick tenacious substance, the juice of a species of pine or fir called abies picea, obtained by incision from the bark of the tree. When melted and pressed in bags of cloth, it is received into barrels. This is white or Burgundy pitch; by mixture with lampblack it is converted into black pitch When kept long in fusion with vinegar, it becomes dry and brown, and forms colophony. The smoke of pitch condensed forms lampblack.
2. The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated; used in caulking ships and paying the sides and bottom.
PITCH, noun [from the root of pike, peak.]
1. Literally, a point; hence, any point or degree of elevation; as a high pitch; lowest pitch
How high a pitch his resolution soars.
Alcibiades was one of the best orators of his age, notwithstanding he lived when learning was at its highest pitch
2. Highest rise.
3. Size; stature.
So like in person, garb and pitch
4. Degree; rate.
No pitch of glory from the grave is free.
5. The point where a declivity begins, or the declivity itself; descent; slope; as the pitch of a hill.
6. The degree of descent or declivity.
7. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
8. Degree of elevation of the key-note of a tune or of any note.
PITCH, verb transitive [Latin figo, to fix, and uniting pike, pique with fix.]
1. To throw or thrust, and primarily, to thrust a long or pointed object; hence, to fix; to plant; to set; as, to pitch a tent or pavilion, that is, to set the stakes.
2. To throw at a point; as, to pitch quoits.
3. To throw headlong; as, to pitch one in the mire or down a precipice.
4. To throw with a fork; as, to pitch hay or sheaves of corn.
5. To regulate or set the key-note of a tune in music.
6. To set in array; to marshal or arrange in order; used chiefly in the participle; as a pitched battle.
7. [from pitch ] To smear or pay over with pitch; as, to pitch the seams of a ship.
PITCH, verb intransitive To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Take a branch of the tree on which the bees pitch and wipe the hive.
1. To fall headlong; as, to pitch from a precipice; to pitch on the head.
2. To plunge; as, to pitch into a river.
3. To fall; to fix choice; with on or upon.
PITCH upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy.
4. To fix a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. Genesis 31:25.
5. In navigation, to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship passing over waves.
6. To flow or fall precipitously, as a river.
Over this rock, the river pitches in one entire sheet.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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