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Have any translations of the Bible actually called the forbidden fruit an apple? I thought the association with apples was an invention of artists who might h

Have any translations of the Bible actually called the forbidden fruit an apple? I thought the association with apples was an invention of artists who might have been punning on the Latin words for evil and apple, but I haven't heard of any Bible that actually translates it to apple.

sorokod 3y ago
It is literally "the fruit of the forbidden tree" in original Hebrew.
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  Yes I know, I'm asking if any translated bible ever called it an apple. I don't think that happened. Artists chose to depict it as an apple, but that isn't an idea given to them by a mistranslated bible.
  - smokyd347 3y ago
    I believe it was Milton who gave us "apple" in Paradise Lost.
  - sorokod 3y ago
    Worth mentioning that apple used to signify any sort of fruit
adrian_b 3y ago
I have checked right now the Latin Vulgate, https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_vt_genesis_lt.html https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/... and it uses only the word "fructu", i.e. fruit, presumably translating "carpo" from Greek. There is no other more specific word.