Gopher wood, the Glossary
Gopher wood or gopherwood is a term used once in the Bible for the material used to construct Noah's ark.[1]
Table of Contents
26 relations: Adam Clarke, Aramaic, Bible, Bible translations into English, Biblical Hebrew, Buxus, Cupressus sempervirens, Gopher, Greek language, Hapax legomenon, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew language, King James Version, List of plants known as cedar, Methodism, Noah's Ark, Nova Vulgata, Online Etymology Dictionary, Peshitta, Pitch (resin), Septuagint, Syriac language, Targum Onkelos, The Jewish Encyclopedia, Theology, Vulgate.
- Cedrus
- Cupressus
- Noah's Ark
- Plants in the Bible
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke (176226 August 1832) was a British Methodist theologian who served three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference (1806–07, 1814–15 and 1822–23).
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Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
Bible translations into English
Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English.
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Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew (rtl ʿīḇrîṯ miqrāʾîṯ or rtl ləšôn ham-miqrāʾ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Buxus
Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae.
Cupressus sempervirens
Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean cypress (also known as Italian cypress, Tuscan cypress, Persian cypress, or pencil pine), is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Iran. Gopher wood and Cupressus sempervirens are Cupressus.
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Gopher
Pocket gophers, commonly referred to simply as gophers, are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Hapax legomenon
In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (also or; hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, plural hapaxes) is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context: either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text.
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Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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King James Version
on the title-page of the first edition and in the entries in works like the "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", etc.--> The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.
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List of plants known as cedar
Cedar is part of the English common name of many trees and other plants, particularly those of the genus Cedrus.
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Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ)The word "ark" in modern English comes from Old English aerca, meaning a chest or box.
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Nova Vulgata
The Nova Vulgata (complete title: Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio,; abr. NV), also called the Neo-Vulgate, is the Catholic Church's official Classical Latin translation of the original-language texts of the Bible published by the Holy See.
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Online Etymology Dictionary
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
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Peshitta
The Peshitta (ܦܫܺܝܛܬܳܐ or ܦܫܝܼܛܬܵܐ) is the standard version of the Bible for churches in the Syriac tradition, including the Maronite Church, the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Syriac Catholic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Malabar Independent Syrian Church (Thozhiyoor Church), the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Syro-Malabar Church.
Pitch (resin)
Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer which can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, or plants.
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Septuagint
The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.
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Syriac language
The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.
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Targum Onkelos
Numbers 6.3–10 with Aramaic Targum Onkelos from the British Library. Targum Onkelos (or Onqelos; תַּרְגּוּם אֻנְקְלוֹס, Targūm ’Unqəlōs) is the primary Jewish Aramaic targum ("translation") of the Torah, accepted as an authoritative translated text of the Five Books of Moses and thought to have been written in the early second century CE.
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century.
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Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.
Vulgate
The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.
See also
Cedrus
Cupressus
- Cupressus
- Cupressus atlantica
- Cupressus cashmeriana
- Cupressus chengiana
- Cupressus duclouxiana
- Cupressus dupreziana
- Cupressus funebris
- Cupressus gigantea
- Cupressus sempervirens
- Cupressus torulosa
- Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Gopher wood
- Orchard with Cypresses
Noah's Ark
- Ararat anomaly
- Arca Noë
- Cessair
- Durupınar site
- Etchmiadzin Cathedral
- Gopher wood
- Mount Judi
- Mountains of Ararat
- Noah's Ark
- Noah's Ark Zoo Farm
- Noah's Ark silver coins
- Nusaybin
- Searches for Noah's Ark
- Sinjar Mountains
- The Critical Eye
- Wives aboard Noah's Ark
- İlandağ
Plants in the Bible
- Algum
- Biblical garden
- Date palm
- Ezov
- Ficus sycomorus
- Fig
- Fig-cake (fruit)
- Five Trees
- Five species of grain
- Gopher wood
- Grape
- Kikayon
- List of plants in the Bible
- Lotus tree
- Mandrake
- Nephesh
- Olive
- Origanum syriacum
- Pomegranate
- Rose of Sharon
- Seven Species
- Shittah tree
- Spikenard
- Stacte
- Sycamine
- Teil tree
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_wood
Also known as Gofer wood, Goferwood, Gopher-wood, Gopherwood.