How to Pronounce Bitumen
bih-TYOO-mn
Bitumen is pronounced bih-TYOO-mn: three syllables, stress on the second.
What is Bitumen?
Gen. 11:3, R.V., margin, rendered in the A.V. “slime”), a mineral pitch. With this the ark was pitched (6:14. See also Ex. 2:3.) (See SLIME.)
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.