Download the Zee news app now to keep up with daily breaking news and live news event coverage. Periyar Tiger Reserve Kerala Gopher tree. Next Story. Crime against women: Kerala sets up all-woman police team. Comments - Join the Discussion. Many other commentaries making the same point could be cited. Those that offer cypress, cedar, or some other pine are merely guessing based on what lumber might have been suitable for building a large wooden vessel.
In some cases, we need to consider whether these guesses are influenced by the unbiblical assumptions that the flood was merely a regional event and that Noah built the ark in the same region in which it landed. Many Christians do not seem to recognize how such a view is incompatible with Scripture. The Genesis flood covered the entire globe, and the pre-flood world perished 2 Peter Thus, we cannot assume that since the ark landed on the mountains of Ararat that the trees growing in that region today are the same types that would have been available to Noah before the flood.
Before giving up on trying to identify this wood, we need to consider two alternative ideas that have been suggested. Here is how it translates the statement:. The translation of this statement is rather straightforward. The LXX is often helpful when trying to discover the meaning of Hebrew terms, but in this case, it does not seem to offer much assistance. The latter was a small box, while the former was a massive ship.
Perhaps the LXX translators were privy to reliable sources to support this interpretation, but such materials are not available to researchers today. This word order reflects the way the Old Testament frequently refers to trees that were used for construction purposes note, our English translations usually reverse the order for a more natural reading. When simply speaking of the trees themselves rather than the wood from the tree being used for construction, the Old Testament usually just identifies the tree.
For example, 1 Kings mentions both cedar and sycamore. It does not speak of trees of cedar and trees of sycamore. The first three consonants of this term g-p-r match the Hebrew consonants in gopher. This has led some people to think that gopher is the root of gofrit , implying that the two terms would likely have similar meanings.
Recently, a creationist publication repeated this notion that gopher and gofrit are related. There are multiple problems with this assertion, and consequently the points the authors derive from it discussed below are dubious at best. First, in the Hebrew language, a noun typically does not become the root of another noun. Hebrew nouns are normally built on verbal roots, and as far as we can tell, neither gopher nor gafrit are derived from Hebrew terms.
Loan words do not usually have roots in the final language. Second, gopher is a masculine noun. How could it possibly be the root of the feminine noun gofrit? This point alone essentially rules out the possibility of gopher being the root of gofrit.
Third, although there is no known etymological connection between these terms, it would be possible that they were related conceptually if the known meanings of the terms overlapped. However, as best as we can tell, the semantic ranges of these terms do not overlap at all.
Thus, there is no justification for linking these two terms. Consequently, these points fall flat, but they are addressed here because they attempt to describe characteristics of gopher wood. The article went on to make the following claim about gopher wood:. The word for pitch is kopher , and it is a noun based on the verbal root kpr. It provides three other definitions as well. However, leading academic lexicons like HALOT and Clines give this word four separate entries, making it clear that this is not one word with four separate meanings.
Instead, these are four distinct homonyms, separate words with identical spelling. In English, we use the term bat for a wooden object used to hit a baseball or for a flying mammal of the same name. While homonyms are fairly common in English, they are even more prevalent in Hebrew.
These four words are commonly translated as pitch Genesis , bribe or ransom Exodus , henna blossoms Song of Solomon , and open village 1 Samuel Or perhaps the true meaning might be deduced from similar sounding words—some still in use today.
Pitch is a waterproof covering. No one knows for sure what kind of pitch Noah used and it is not likely to have been petroleum based, as Flood geologists believe that is product of the Flood catastrophe—and its sedimentation and after affects. The bottom-line is that this ancient word remains a mystery.
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