Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2203
זֶפֶת
zephethzeh'-feth
pitch
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2203is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2203
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
The King James renders it: pitch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zepheth is rendered "pitch". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 2:3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Exodus 2:3וּבַזָּ֑פֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into pitch2
- and with the pitch1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּבַזָּ֑פֶת1
- לְזֶ֔פֶת1
- לְזֶ֖פֶת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HC/Rd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- וּבַזָּ֑פֶתuvazafetconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and with the pitch
Isaiah
two uses
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
- לְזֶ֔פֶתlezefetpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into pitch
- לְזֶ֖פֶתlezefetpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into pitch
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.