H2203 Hebrew

זֶפֶת

zepheth (zeh'-feth)

asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)

KJV Translations of H2203

pitch.

Word Origin & Derivation

from an unused root (meaning to liquify);

H2203 in the King James Bible

2 verses

Exodus 2:3 וּבַזָּ֑פֶת

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.

Isaiah 34:9 לְזֶ֖פֶת

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.