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Pitch

זֶ֫פֶתStrong’s H2203

zephet (ze-phet)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Zephet is the Hebrew word usually translated “pitch” and “into pitch”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“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.”
Exodus 2:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Pitch, tar, asphalt
How it's translated
  • and with pitch 1
  • into pitch 1
  • pitch 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

זֶ֫פֶת zephet · pitch

pitch, tar, asphalt

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “pitch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PITCH, noun

[Latin pix; Gr. most probably named from its thickness or inspissation; Latin figo.]

  1. A thick tenacious substance, the juice of a species of pine or fir called abies picea, obtained by incision from the bark of the tree.
  2. The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated; used in caulking ships and paying the sides and bottom.
All definitions and other forms of “pitch”

    PITCH, noun

    [from the root of pike, peak.]

    1. Literally, a point; hence, any point or degree of elevation; as a high pitch; lowest pitch
    2. Highest rise.
    3. Size; stature.
    4. Degree; rate.
    5. The point where a declivity begins, or the declivity itself; descent; slope; as the pitch of a hill.
    6. The degree of descent or declivity.
    7. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
    8. Degree of elevation of the key-note of a tune or of any note.

    PITCH, verb transitive

    [Latin figo, to fix, and uniting pike, pique with fix.]

    1. To throw or thrust, and primarily, to thrust a long or pointed object; hence, to fix; to plant; to set; as, to pitch a tent or pavilion, that is, to set the stakes.
    2. To throw at a point; as, to pitch quoits.
    3. To throw headlong; as, to pitch one in the mire or down a precipice.
    4. To throw with a fork; as, to pitch hay or sheaves of corn.
    5. To regulate or set the key-note of a tune in music.
    6. To set in array; to marshal or arrange in order; used chiefly in the participle; as a pitched battle.
    7. [from pitch ] To smear or pay over with pitch; as, to pitch the seams of a ship.

    PITCH, verb intransitive

    To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

    1. To fall headlong; as, to pitch from a precipice; to pitch on the head.
    2. To plunge; as, to pitch into a river.
    3. To fall; to fix choice; with on or upon.
    4. To fix a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.“Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead” Genesis 31:25
    5. In navigation, to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship passing over waves.
    6. To flow or fall precipitously, as a river.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.