Apple
תַּפּוּחַStrong’s H8598tappuach (tap-pu-ach)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tappuach is the Hebrew word usually translated “apples of”, “like an apple tree” and “apples”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
Meaning
- Apple, apple treeapple tree · apples
How it's translated
- apples of 1
- like an apple tree 1
- with apples 1
- like apples 1
- the apple tree 1
- and apple tree 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 4
- Proverbs 1
- Joel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 2:3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Song of Solomon 2:5Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
- Song of Solomon 7:8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
- Song of Solomon 8:5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
- Joel 1:12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּפּוּחַ tappuach · apple
1) apple, apple tree 1a) apple tree 1b) apples
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.