2024年6月28日 · It is possible that gopher refers to a PROCESS or METHOD used to prepare the wood (gophering the wood)? Examples. The words “gopher wood” are translated in the Septuagint Bible as “squared beams.” The Vulgate version translated these same words as “planed wood” (“planed” as in shaping it to be flat-sided and level).

The phonetic sound of 'Gopher wood' makes me think, 'Go for wood' - lots of it - without naming the botanic species. This has nothing to do with Hebrew, of course; your explanations, and pointing out the symbolic significance, really does hermeneutic justice to this question.

Interestingly, "gopher" wood is actually the transliteration of one of the original hebrew words there. The transliteration of gphr ended up with the KJV as "gopher". Cypress wood was chosen because it was an actual wood, rather than just a wood that with another semi-random word attached to it. (Ark wood, wall wood, white wood, etc.)

In Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. The term used for "an ark" is tebah. This term is also

2021年8月22日 · A more correct translation is perhaps "wood-like גפר" where גפר was an unfamiliar Semitic word to Hebrew scribes (see the answer I made to this question for a detailed explanation of this). But, if we allow for the Klein Dictionary interpretation of גפר: גֹּֽפֶר m.n. ‘gopher’ (a kind of wood of which Noah’s ark was made).

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. —Genesis 6:14. Dr. Henry Morris explains, The word for “pitch” (Hebrew transliteration: kopher) [in Genesis 6:14] is different from …

2017年9月3日 · gopher. Hebrew: גֹּ֫פֶר —transliteration of the equivalent letters G P R: gopher. T his is a word of uncertain meaning and derivation. Moses, the author of Genesis, surely knew its meaning, but it has been lost to time. It certainly has nothing to do with a small burrowing rodent or a tunnelling tortise. SEE: What is “GOPHER” wood ...

2007年6月22日 · G enesis 6:14 begins with God’s command to Noah to “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood….” In 2007, God has returned in the form of Morgan Freeman to again issue this command, this time to Steve Carell, a.k.a. Evan Baxter. Verily I say unto you, this then is the plot of the $175-million dollar comedy epic, “Evan Almighty.”

2021年9月22日 · to describe Noah's "ark" of "gopher" wood; to describe Moses' "ark" of papyrus reeds. APPENDIX - תֵּבָה (tevah) תֵּבָה noun feminine ark (properly chest, box (compare Late Hebrew תֵּבָה); probably Egyptian loan-word from T-b-t, chest, coffin (Brugsch, ErmanZMG xlvi (1892), 123); > Babylonian word JenZA iv (1889), 272 f.

Noah and his life. Noah’s name means “rest”. Noah’s grandfather was the oldest man who ever lived ().The Flood began when Noah was 600 years old (Genesis 6:3) and his grandfather had just died.