Strong's Definition
from an unused root, probably meaning to house in; a kind of tree or wood (as used for building), apparently the cypress
KJV Usage: gopher
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גֹּ֫פֶר (go.pher) — gopher. 1) cypress?, gopher, gopher wood 1a) wood of which the ark was made 1b) meaning and exact type unknown
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Trees
gopher, cypress exact meaning unsure: = one of the evergreen trees commonly found in Lebanon, with round leaves rather than flat; its fruit is a mostly inedible seed-bearing, fleshy cone; ► its wood can be used for construction
1 GEN 6:14 RSV NJPS ESV "gopher" | NIV NRSV REB "cypress" | NJB "resinous wood" | GNT CEV "good timber"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גֹּ֫פֶר n.[m.] gopher, only in Gn 6:14 wood of which the ark was made ref