Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8598
תַּפּוּחַ
tappuachtap-poo'-akh
apple
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tappûwach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8598is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8598
an apple (from its fragrance), i.e. the fruit or the tree (probably includ. others of the pome order, as the quince, the orange, etc.)
The King James renders it: apple (tree). See also H1054 (בֵּית תַּפּוּחַ).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tappuach is rendered "apple". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Proverbs 25:11תַּפּוּחֵ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and apple tree1
- apples of1
- like an apple tree1
- like the apples1
- the apple tree1
- with the apples1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּתַּפּוּחִ֑ים1
- הַתַּפּ֙וּחַ֙1
- וְתַפּ֗וּחַ1
- כְּתַפּ֙וּחַ֙1
- כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃1
- תַּפּוּחֵ֣י1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural2HRd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Proverbs
one use
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
- תַּפּוּחֵ֣יtapucheinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: apples of
Song of Solomon
four uses
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
- כְּתַפּ֙וּחַ֙ketapuachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like an apple tree
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
- בַּתַּפּוּחִ֑יםbatapuchimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the apples
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
- כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃katapuchimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the apples
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- הַתַּפּ֙וּחַ֙hatapuachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the apple tree
Joel
one use
The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- וְתַפּ֗וּחַvetapuachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and apple tree
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.