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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Slime

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Slime

(Genesis 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark of bulrushes" with slime (Exodus 2:3). (See PITCH.)


Naves Topical Index
Slime

A cement made of asphaltum.

Valley of Siddim afforded
Genesis 14:10

Used at Babel
Genesis 11:3

Used in Noah's ark
Genesis 6:14

Used in the ark of Moses
Exodus 2:3

Inflammable
Isaiah 34:9


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Slime

translated bitumen in the Vulgate. The three instances in which it is mentioned in the Old Testament are illustrated by travellers and historians. It is first spoken of as used for cement by the builders in the plain of Shinar or Babylonia. (Genesis 11:3) The bitumen pits in the vale of Siddim are mentioned in the ancient fragment of Canaanitish history, (Genesis 14:10) and the ark of papyrus in which Moses was placed was made impervious to water by a coating of bitumen and pitch. (Exodus 2:3) Herodotus, i. 179, tells us of the bitumen found at Is, the modern Heet , a town of Babylonia, eight days journey from Babylon. (Bitumen, or asphalt, is "the product of the decomposition of vegetable and animal substances. It is usually found of a black or brownish-black color, externally not unlike coal, but it varies in a consistency from a bright, pitchy condition, with a conchoidal fracture, to thick, viscid masses of mineral tar."

Encyc. Brit. In this last state it is called in the Bible slime, and is of the same nature as our petroleum, but thicker, and hardens into asphalt. It is obtained in various places in Europe, and even now occasionally from the Dead Sea.

ED.)


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Slime

SLIME, noun [Latin limus.] Soft moist earth having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. They had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. Genesis 11:3.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Slime-pit

SLI'ME-PIT, noun A pit of slime or adhesive mire.