Make yourself an ark from coniferous tree wood. Make compartments for the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.
Year 2468 BC
Make yourself an ark. Matt 24:38; Luke 17:27; 1Pe 3:20.
and caulk it…with pitch. Exo 2:3.
Source: The Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
The word ark (Heb. tebâ) means “a box.” An Egyptian word that could be related to it is “basket” or “coffin”, this same term is used for the box in which the child Moses was found in the Nile (Exo 2:3). Usually, we have in mind a boat or a ship without a stern or a bow. But a ship is designed to move through water or for transportation, whereas Noah’s ark was built just to float on water. The Hebrew term, gofer wood is not yet known. Noah built rooms in the ark and used pitch to seal it from the water. Not sure what type of sealer he used. What a comical situation this must have been! We don’t know where Noah lived in the run up to the flood, but there is not the slightest hint that he lived near the ocean. Furthermore, Noah was building a huge floating box that must never have been seen before.
Source: New Illustrated Caribbean Bible Commentary
AN ARK. The Hebrew word “ark” means a floating vessel, and it occurs only here and in Exo 2:3 Exo 2:5 (where it is used to refer to the chest in which the child Moses was placed). It resembled a barge, but not necessarily with square corners. Its dimensions are given in “cubits” (v. Gen 6:15). An ancient cubit was equal to about eighteen inches. So the ark was approximately 135 meters long, 22.5 meters wide, and 13.5 meters high. Its cargo capacity was equal to more than 300 railway cars. It is estimated that the ark could accommodate about seven thousand kinds of animals. Hebrews 11:7 suggests that the ark is a type of Christ, who is the believer’s means of salvation from judgment and death (cf. 1Pe 3:20-21).
Source: Full Life Study Bible
ark. A hollow chest, a box designed to float on water (Exo 2:3). gopher wood. Probably cedar or cypress, abundant in the mountains of Armenia.
Source: MacArthur Study Bible
GRADES
(1) Lit., “a chest.” Heb., te vath. See Exo 2:3, Exo 2:5.
(2) Lit., “gofer trees”, a resinous wood, possibly cypress.
(3) Or: “cells; cameras; cabins”.
CROSS-REFERENCES
w235 Heb 11:7
x236 Gen 14:10; Exo 2:3
Source: New World Translation
gopher wood. Probably cypress or cedar.
Source: Ryrie Annotated Study Bible
you will cover… Another possible translation: make atonement; pitch… Homonym: kufrun → §168.
Source: Textual Bible IV Edition
O, resinous wood; heb., gopher