Bible word study

Tappuwach (Strong’s H8598): Meaning in the Bible

Tappuwach (תַּפּוּחַ) is the Hebrew word numbered H8598 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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.). In the King James Bible it is translated apple (tree). See also H1054..

• Original wordתַּפּוּחַ
• Transliterationtappûwach
• Pronunciationtap-poo'-akh
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH8598
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H5301;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tappuwach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tappuwach (H8598) stands behind 6 English renderings in 6 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Song of Solomon (4), Proverbs (1), Joel (1).

How the King James Bible renders Tappuwach, by count

• apples3 of 6 (50 percent)
• tree3 of 6 (50 percent)

Three places to read Tappuwach

• Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
• Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
• Song of Solomon 8:5 Who 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.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tappuwach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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