Strong's Hebrew · H2203
זֶפֶת
zepheth · zeh'-feth
Definitionasphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
Derivationfrom an unused root (meaning to liquify);
KJV usagepitch.
Occurrences3 in the KJV · 2 verses
זֶפֶת in Scripture
Exodus 2:3
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
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.