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Gopher
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
The name of the wood of which the ark was built. Many suppose it to be the cypress; others, the pine. Gopher may probably be a general name for such trees as abound with resinous inflammable juices, as the cedar, cypress, fir-tree, pine, etc., Genesis 6:14 .
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Gopher'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/g/gopher.html. 1859.