Genesis 6:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

ark. Hebrew. tebah =. floating [building] (not 'aron,. chest). So in Exodus 2:2; Exodus 2:3.

of. Genitive of material. App-17.

rooms. nests.

pitch it. coat it. Hebrew. kaphar, to cover: the only word for "atonement" in O.T. So that it is only atonement that can keep the waters of judgment from us.

with pitch. Hebrew. kopher = resin (not "pitch" or bitumen, which is zepheth, Exodus 2:3 Isaiah 34:9; Isaiah 34:9).

Genesis 6:14

14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; roomsc shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.