Make yourself an ark of GOPHER wood

[tonychanyt]

English Standard Version, Genesis 6:

14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

What was gopher wood?

Strong's Hebrew: 1613. גֹּ֫פֶר (gopher) — 1 Occurrence

"gopher" is a transliteration of the Hebrew word H1613.

Some translators thought it was cypress. New International Version:

So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Matthew Poole explained:

Gopher wood: this word is but once used in Scripture, and therefore it is diversely rendered by the learned; by some pine, by many cedar, but by others cypress, a tree very proper and usual for ships, and of a firm and durable substance, and much abounding in those parts; all which appears from ancient authors.