Apple
בָּבָהStrong’s H0892bavah (ba-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pupil of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”
Meaning
- The apple (pupil) of the eye
How it's translated
- pupil of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
בָּבָה bavah · apple
the apple (pupil) of the eye
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “apple” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AP'PLE, noun
- The fruit of the apple tree, [pyrus malus, ] from which cider is made.
- The apple of the eye is the pupil.
All definitions and other forms of “apple”
AP'PLE, verb transitive
To form like an apple
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.