# זֶפֶת (zefet)

Israeli respelling: ze-fet. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2203. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)

King James renderings: pitch.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/zefet-h2203

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Isaiah 34:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.