Smith's Bible Names Dictionary – Gopher
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Gopher

(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.