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Strong's #01613 - גֹּפֶר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) cypress?, gopher, gopher wood
1a) wood of which the ark was made
1b) meaning and exact type unknown
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2079) rpc (גפר GPR) AC: Burn CO: Brimstone AB: ?
Nm ) rpc (גפר GPR) - Gopher: Wood from an unknown tree. KJV (1): gopher - Strongs: H1613 (גֹּפֶר)
Nf4) tirpc (גפרית GPRYT) - Brimstone: A rock of sulfur that burns. KJV (7): brimstone - Strongs: H1614 (גָּפְרִית)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
גֹּפֶר Genesis 6:14 prop. pitch, i.q. כֹּפֶר as I suppose; and I interpret עֲצֵי גֹפֶר pitch trees, resinous trees, such as the pine, fir, cypress, cedar, and other trees of the kind used in ship-building; see גָּפְרִית. Of the moderns, Bochart (Phaleg. i. 4) and Celsius (Hierob. 328) are not amiss in understanding specially κυπάρισσος, the cypress; not without reason appealing also to the similarity of letters.
