Strong's Lexicon

H2203

H2203 — זֶפֶת

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewzephethnoun femOccurrences: 3TWOT: 572

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H2203
Word:זֶפֶת
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:from an unused root (meaning to liquify)
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:3
Transliteration:zepheth
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:zeh'-feth
Meaning:1. asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
KJV Renderings:pitch.

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BDB2428

זֶ֫פֶת noun feminine Isa 34:9 pitch (compare on formative Ol§ 164 c) Sta§ 187 a. Word is Armenian according to LagArm. Stud. 1351, BN 219; on Egyptian derivatives compare CookSpeaker's Comm. i. 484; Arabic [untranscribed source text 1535] according to Frä151, if Shemitic, is Aramaic loan-word; see also Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 1536] Di1068) — pitch: — וַתַּחְמְרָה בַחֵמָר וּבַזָּ֑פֶת Exod 2:3 of ark of bulrushes; Isa 34:9 a וְנֶחֶפְכוּ נְחָלֶיהָ לְזֶפֶת וַעֲפָרָהּ לְגָפְרִ֑ית, Isa 34:9 b והיתה אַרְצָהּ לְזֶפֶת בֹּעֵרָֽה׃.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

זפת (zeh’-pheth)

Exodus 2:3

KJV: 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.
EHCC: daubed it with slime and with Pitch,

Isaiah 34:9

KJV: And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
EHCC: shall be turned into pitch,
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