זֶפֶת
zepheth · H2203 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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pitch
Tarlike substance, naturally derived from petroleum, and used to make objects watertight
ExamplesExodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
Isaiah 34:9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּעַרto burn, to purge 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 4
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Bitumen001002005002
- זֶפֶת denotes pitch, the sticky bituminous substance used to waterproof the basket in which the infant Moses is hidden.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2203. zepheth זֶ֫פֶת noun feminineIsa 34:9 pitch (compare on formative Ol§ 164 c) Sta§…
זֶ֫פֶת noun feminineIsa 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 Exo 2:3 of ark of bulrushes; Isa 34:9 a לְגָפְרִ֑ית וַעֲפָרָהּ לְזֶפֶת נְחָלֶיהָ וְנֶחֶפְכוּ, Isa 34:9 b בֹּעֵרָֽה׃ לְזֶפֶת אַרְצָהּ והיתה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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