Fruit = Apple?

[Strider1002]

It just occurred to me that, although the forbidden fruit in Eden is commonly considered to be an apple, the Bible describes it only as "fruit." At least, in all of the translations I've checked, the word "apple" never appears.

So, I'm curious, how did apples come to be associated with the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

 

[apocolypticremedy999]

I'm not quite sure, I'm sure it was just the fruit someone picked to describe the event and it became the default fruit to resemble the forbidden fruit. It could have been any fruit really, it doesn't matter. And there are no fruits forbidden anymore, so don't be afraid to bite into a nice juicy apple! ;D

 

[Strider1002]

Yeah, I imagine if the Bible actually said "apple," there'd be a lot of people avoiding apples on religious grounds...

 

[juvenissun]

It just occurred to me that, although the forbidden fruit in Eden is commonly considered to be an apple, the Bible describes it only as "fruit." At least, in all of the translations I've checked, the word "apple" never appears.

So, I'm curious, how did apples come to be associated with the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

Why is the apple a symbol of education or schooling?

 

[juvenissun]

Yeah, I imagine if the Bible actually said "apple," there'd be a lot of people avoiding apples on religious grounds...

No. If that were the case, then apple would be the only thing I ate.

See the "fruit" has two opposite faces: 1. It is something Adam and Eve should not eat. 2. It is a really really good fruit (read its name?).

 

[granpa]

Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Potential forbidden fruits of the Garden of Eden include the apple, pomegranate,[2] the fig,[3] the carob,[2] the etrog or citron,[2] the pear, and, more recently, the datura.[4]
In Western Europe, the fruit was often depicted as an apple, possibly because of a misunderstanding of, or a pun on mălum, a native Latin noun which means evil (from the adjective malus), and mālum, another Latin noun, borrowed from Greek μῆλον, which means apple