A type of wood or timber, mentioned in biblical texts as the material used to build Noah's Ark, though its modern botanical identity remains uncertain.
From 'gopher' + 'wood.' The term appears in the King James Bible (Genesis 6:14). Modern scholars debate whether it refers to cypress, acacia, or another ancient wood species, with 'gopher' possibly being a transliteration error.
Gopherwood is a fascinating historical mystery—we can't definitively identify what wood Noah supposedly used because ancient translators may have simply transliterated an unknown word rather than translate it, leaving us with a botanical ghost!
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