Lexicon gopher: gopher (a kind of tree or wood) Original Word: גֹּ֫פֶרPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: gopher Phonetic Spelling: (go'-fer) Short Definition: gopher NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiongopher (a kind of tree or wood) NASB Translationgopher (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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; Lag Semitica 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). Strong's gopher From an unused root, probably meaning to house in; a kind of tree or wood (as used for building), apparently the cypress -- gopher. |
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