Nope.
None of that is true.
Genesis 6:14 in the Latin text of the Vugate is
ac tibi arcam de lignis laevigatis; mansiunculas in arca facies, et bitumine linies intrinsecus et extrinsecus.
The expression the Latin uses is
de lignis laevigatis.
The word "gopher" is Hebrew, גֹפֶר, and it has no relationship with the North American gopher, which either gets its name from a borrowing of the French word gaufre, meaning "honeycomb", or else from the indigenous Muskogean word referring to a hollow within the ground.
The American Heritage Dictionary entry: gopher
www.ahdictionary.com
en.wiktionary.org
The Hebrew word is of unknown meaning, but it has absolutely no relationship with the North American gopher. In the same way that if I say "I can do this" I am not referring to a can of tuna fish. Sometimes words sound similar or even the same; but two similar or same sounding words can have radically different meanings and radically different etymologies. While both can and can sound the same and are spelled the same in English, and both have Germanic roots, they are ultimately derived from very different things: one ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root -
gno "to know" from which also the Greek word
gnosis, the Latin word
cogito, and the English word
know all are derived from; and the other from a Germanic term referring to a tankard or container, likely a borrowing from the Latin
canna, meaning "container").
Learn before trying to teach. The year is 2023, there is literally a world of resources one has at their disposal, dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, lexicons, and even digitized copies and translations of ancient written documents. It is entirely possible, with just a little bit of effort, to study things. Develop the tools for critical thinking and analysis, learn how to search down sources, and do some reasonable amount of homework before presuming to try and pontificate on the meaning of something.
If you are unwilling to do the bare minimum of work when it comes to the reading and study of the Bible, then you are not in any position to be trying to educate anyone about the Bible or its meaning.
You need to be learning, not teaching.
-CryptoLutheran
