[dread78645]

Yes, here’s one explanation:

“Gopher wood” is a misreading and scribal error. “Kopher” wood is correct and means wood (any wood) that is covered with Kopher. Kopher is bitumen. In the Genesis text (6:14), the context is clear. The GPR wood used, (a scribal error) is to be covered in KPR. G and K in Hebrew are so similar that inexperienced Hebrew “scholars,” such as those translating the King James Version of the Bible, could have been prone to such errors, indeed, they made many such errors.

Well that nice and all, but doesn't all that jitterbugging trash the idea of a Bible that's inerrant --free of error?

[pjd]

From Strong's Hebrew Dictionary:

Gopher wood - From an unused root, probably meaning to house in; a kind of tree or wood (as used for building), apparently the cypress.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

No, it just goes to show the limited, finite mind of man that constantly gets the Word of God screwed up, and, in fact, these same little, fallen, limited, finite men actually declare the Scriptures to be lies and "BS".

So it's not a reflection of the Bible at all, but a validation of God's assessment of man: that he is at enmity with God and is completely incapable, apart from Jesus Christ, of understanding God and His Word.

God is right and we are wrong, yet again.

[ApplegateRanch]

The Word of God is inerrant; Man’s translations of it are another matter.