Strong’s H2203 · Hebrew
זֶפֶת
zepheth · zeh'-feth
Origin from an unused root (meaning to liquify);
Meaning asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
In the King James Version pitch.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 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.
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.