Was The Forbidden Fruit Really An Apple?
Did Eve Offer Adam An Apple?
It’s commonly believed that Eve tempted Adam with an apple but I can’t find anything in my bible to suggest that the fruit in question was an apple.
Was it an apple, and if not, then why did people like John Milton explicitly use the word apple?
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Although the forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis is commonly believed to have been an apple, and it is more often than not depicted as one, the Bible doesn’t in fact state exactly what kind of fruit it was, and the original Hebrew texts only say “tree”.
Early Latin translations used the word “mali”, which means both “evil” and “apple”, and from about the 12th century onwards, both German and French artists generally depicted the fruit as an apple.