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Gopher wood

Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

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Comments: Cupressus sempervirens, Rhodes Island, Greece

 

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Cupressus sempervirens - κυπαρίσσι

Crete: Lefka Ori, S entrance to Amoutsera valley, at the treeline, 13 July 2006.

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Comments: Cones of Cupressus sempervirens, near Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.

 

Gopher wood. Many modern English translations tend to favor cypress. גֹ֔פֶרgōper - Strongs: H1613.

From Easton: Gopher - a tree from the wood of which Noah was directed to build the ark (Genesis 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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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​g/gopher-wood.html. 2024.