גֹפֶר gopher (H1613) is only used once in the entire Hebrew Bible and describes an unknown wood not found since Noah’s time. This could be because the Book of Enoch says the ark was made by angels in Enoch 67:1-2; “And in those days the word of Elohim came unto me, and He said unto me: ‘Noaḥ, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness. 2. And now the angels are making a wooden building, and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the land will not remain without inhabitant.”
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