Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2203 - זֶפֶת zepheth (pitch)

Original Word:	זֶפֶת
Transliteration:	zepheth
Definition:	pitch
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(zeh'-feth)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

pitch

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

Englishman's Concordance

1) pitch, tar, asphalt
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (meaning to liquify)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 572

Brown-Driver-Briggs

זֶ֫פֶתnoun feminine^{Isaiah 34:9}pitch (compare on formative Ol^{§ 164 c}) Sta^{§ 187 a. Word is Armenian according to} Lag^{Arm. Stud. 1351, BN 219}; on Egyptian derivatives compare Cook^{Speaker's Comm. i. 484}; Arabic

according to Frä¹⁵¹, if Shemitic, is Aramaic loan-word; see also Ethiopic

Di¹⁰⁶⁸) — pitch: — וַתַּחְמְרָה בַחֵמָר וּבַזָּ֑פֶתExodus 2:3 of ark of bulrushes; Isaiah 34:9 a וְנֶחֶפְכוּ נְחָלֶיהָ לְזֶפֶת וַעֲפָרָהּ לְגָפְרִ֑ית, Isaiah 34:9 b והיתה אַרְצָהּ לְזֶפֶת בֹּעֵרָֽה׃.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2203. זָ֫פֶת (zepheth) — 3 Occurrences

Exodus 2:3
HEB:וַתַּחְמְרָ֥ה בַחֵמָ֖ר וּבַזָּ֑פֶת וַתָּ֤שֶׂם בָּהּ֙
NAS: it over with tar and pitch. Then she put
KJV: it with slime and with pitch, and put
INT: and covered tar and pitch put the child

Isaiah 34:9
HEB:וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּ נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ לְזֶ֔פֶת וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ לְגָפְרִ֑ית
NAS: will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth
KJV: thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
INT: will be turned streams pitch loose brimstone

Isaiah 34:9
HEB:וְהָיְתָ֣ה אַרְצָ֔הּ לְזֶ֖פֶת בֹּעֵרָֽה׃
NAS: will become burning pitch.
KJV: thereof shall become burning pitch.
INT: will become land pitch burning

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