Lexical Summary gopher: gopher (a kind of tree or wood) Original Word: גּפֶרTransliteration: gopher Phonetic Spelling: (go'-fer) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: gopher (a kind of tree or wood) Meaning: a kind of tree, wood, the cypress Strong's Concordance gopher From an unused root, probably meaning to house in; a kind of tree or wood (as used for building), apparently the cypress -- gopher. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1613. gopher גֹּ֫פֶר noun [masculine] gopher, only in עֲצֵיגֹּֿפֶר Genesis 6:14 (P), wood of which the ark was made (word dubious; Thes compare כֹּפֶר & so Rob Ges (hence 'pitch-wood, resinous wood'), compare Di; LagSemitica i. 64; Symmict. ii. 93, BN 217 ff. thinks word not original, but inferred from גפרית, and substituted here for גפרית by copyist, or editor. compare following). |
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