H2203: זֶפֶת
zepheth · pronounced zeh'-feth · “pitch”
Definition
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
KJV translates it as: pitch.
Word origin: from an unused root (meaning to liquify);
Extended definition
pitch, tar, asphalt
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2203 is translated
- pitch ×3
Bible verses with H2203 (zepheth)
Zepheth appears in 2 verses.
- Exodus 2:3
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.
- Isaiah 34:9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.