Strong H2203זֶ֫פֶת

pitch

Transliteration
zepheth
Pronunciation
zeh'-feth
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From an unused root (meaning to liquify);
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun): - pitch.

Detailed definition

pitch, tar, asphalt

In the Bible

Strong H2203 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • pitch2

First verses

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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