STRONGS NUMBER H2203


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

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2203. zepheth

זֶ֫פֶתnoun feminineIsaiah 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 according to Frä151, if Shemitic, is Aramaic loan-word; see also Ethiopic Di1068) — pitch:וּבַזָּ֑פֶת בַחֵמָר וַתַּחְמְרָהExodus 2:3 of ark of bulrushes; Isaiah 34:9 a לְגָפְרִ֑ית וַעֲפָרָהּ לְזֶפֶת נְחָלֶיהָ וְנֶחֶפְכוּ‎, 34:9 b בֹּעֵרָֽה׃ לְזֶפֶת אַרְצָהּ והיתה‎.