"* "Atonement" was coined in the 16th century by William Tyndale, who sought to offer a more complete English gesture for the Hebrew concept of kaphar, meaning "to cover over.""
"From this noun, perhaps, the verb kaphar is derived, yielding the expression here used "to pitch with pitch.""
"If with kaphar/kupru we are meant to understand an atonement because "the earth became corrupt" (v. 6: 11), then the expiation of that corruption was attained through the flood in both Genesis and the Epic."