Gopher
Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)
(pitch) wood. Only once mentioned— (Genesis 6:14) Two principal conjectures have been proposed—
• That the “trees of gopher” are any trees of the resinous kind, such as pine, fir, etc.
• That Gopher is cypress.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
A tree from the wood of which Noah was directed to build the ark (Gen. 6:14). It is mentioned only there. The LXX. render this word by “squared beams,” and the Vulgate by “planed wood.” Other versions have rendered it “pine” and “cedar;” but the weight of authority is in favour of understanding by it the cypress tree, which grows abundantly in Chaldea and Armenia.
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