Zephet זֶ֫פֶת
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| זֶ֫פֶת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | zephet |
| Strong's number | H2203 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | pitch |
| Occurrences | 3 in 2 verses |
| Most frequent in | Exodus (1) |
Zephet (Hebrew זֶ֫פֶת, Strong's H2203) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “pitch”. It occurs 3 times in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
pitch, tar, asphalt
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | pitch (3) |
|---|---|
| BSB | pitch (2), tar (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Zephet, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Exodus
- Exodus 2:3And 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.But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 34:9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).