Bible dictionaries
Gopher
What Bible dictionaries say about “Gopher”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Gopher - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
A tree from the wood of which Noah was directed to build the ark (Gen. 6:14). It is mentioned only there. The LXX. render this word by "squared beams," and the Vulgate by "planed wood." Other versions have rendered it "pine" and "cedar;" but the weight of authority is in favour of understanding by it the cypress tree, which grows abundantly in Chaldea and Armenia.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828Smith’s Bible Dictionary
(pitch) wood. Only once mentioned -- (Genesis 6:14) Two principal conjectures have been proposed --
- That the "trees of gopher" are any trees of the resinous kind, such as pine, fir, etc.
- That Gopher is cypress.
William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
The article in Smith