Gôpher — H1613

Definition

masculine noun

a kind of tree or wood (as used for building), apparently the cypress

1. cypress?, gopher, gopher wood
1. wood of which the ark was made
2. meaning and exact type unknown

Usually translated as

gopher

Origin

from an unused root, probably meaning to house in

Occurrences

Gôpher occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1)

• Genesis 6:14 — Make thee an ark of gopher (גֹ֔פֶר) wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.