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Davïd
Davïd
8:20 AM
Hi - questions in "search of a text" are off-topic. As it stands, the question will probably be closed. I suggest you look up some "substance" related texts, and ask about their applicability to the items you mention. Examples might be Proverbs 23:29-35 or Ephesians 5:18 -- that sort of thing, anyway. — Davïd 33 secs ago
^^^^ Any better ideas? Or is this a slam-dunk VtC?
 
Susan
Susan
9:07 AM
@Davïd Dunked.
I thought this one along those lines could have been salvaged to be something interesting, but the OP never did get on board.
 
 
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Susan
Susan
11:23 PM
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A: How did Biblical translators decide on cypress for the type of wood in Noah's ark?

RenéAs noted in other answers, the meaning of גֹּפֶר seems lost to us, and any translation must therefore be speculative. To support the translation "cypress", however, consider the following extract from Beekes/Van Beek, Etymological Dictionary of Greek: κυπάρισσος [f.] 'cypress' (ε 64). <PG(V)> ...

This is fascinating. Even if it’s not a legit way to trace the meaning it’s presumably how translators got “cypress” (which was, as it happens, the question).
Somehow the other answers had danced around the idea that the Hebrew and (if indirectly) English might be cognates such that I hadn’t picked it up.
One wonders how the LXX got τετράγωνος = four corners = rectangle (tetragon?). Makes me wonder if this answerer knew something, although he utterly failed to explain it:
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A: How did Biblical translators decide on cypress for the type of wood in Noah's ark?

David Yuhas"Gofer Wood" does not refer to a Tree Species but to "Lumber" G-F-R referring to length-width-thickness. The Ark was a modular, mountain Barn, built in the Mountains of Ararat (the Upper Tigris) as a Breeding Station, mostly for War Horses...but also for other exotic Animals that had turned up f...

 

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