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title: גֹּפֶר — gopher · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֹּפֶר (1613), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gopher. BDB 1906: gopher. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֹּפֶר

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«גֹּפֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gopher** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1613 · **BDB:** גֹּ֫פֶר

### Glosses

of.gopher (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gopher [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1613/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

gopher [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1613/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] gopher, only in עֲצֵי־גֹּפֶר Gn 6:14 (P), wood of which the ark was made (word dub.; Thes comp. כֹּפֶר \& so Rob Ges (hence ‘pitch-wood, resinous wood’), cf. Di; LagSemitica i. 64; Symmict. ii. 93, BN 217 ff. thinks word not original, but inferred from גפרית, and substituted here for גפרית by copyist, or editor. Cf. following).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֹּפֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1613/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 6:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.14/)

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עֲשֵׂ֤ה לְךָ֙ תֵּבַ֣ת עֲצֵי־גֹ֔פֶר קִנִּ֖ים תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֶת־הַתֵּבָ֑ה וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֛הּ מִבַּ֥יִת וּמִח֖וּץ בַּכֹּֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* make for yourself an.ark of.wood(s) of.gopher nests you.will.make (et) the ark and you.will.cover it from inside and from outside with (the) pitch

*JPS 1917:* Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

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