Lexical Summary zepheth: pitch Original Word: זֶפֶתTransliteration: 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 זֶ֫פֶת noun 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 וַתַּחְמְרָה Exodus 2:3 of ark of bulrushes; Isaiah 34:9 a לְגָפְרִ֑ית וַעֲפָרָהּ לְזֶפֶת נְחָלֶיהָ וְנֶחֶפְכוּ, 34:9 b בֹּעֵרָֽה׃ לְזֶפֶת אַרְצָהּ והיתה. |
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