KJV dictionary & concordance
A sticky substance used for mortar or sealing.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 11:3
Complete exact-word concordance
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
And they sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and burne them thorowly. And they had bricke for stone, and slime had they for morter.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a man said to his neighbour.
1611 marginal noteHeb. burne them to a burning.
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.
And when shee could not longer hide him, she tooke for him an arke of bul-rushes, and daubed it with slime, and with pitch, and put the childe therein, and shee layd it in the flags by the riuers brinke.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Mud; bitumen.
