tap.pu.ach denotes the apple in imagery of trees, fruit, beauty, and cultivated abundance.

The term is used for the apple within images of a tree among forest trees, its sweet fruit, apples offered for support, and apples set in a comparison; it also occurs among the trees of the field that have withered. The supplied translation leaves its particular contribution unexpressed in Song of Songs 7:9.

1. Apple in tree and fruit imagery · dominant

   The singular form occurs among the trees of the field that have withered in Joel 1:12 and in phrases the APB renders “apple tree” in Song of Songs 2:3 and Song of Songs 8:5. Plural forms occur in the comparison rendered “Apples of gold” in Proverbs 25:11 and in the support requested with “apples” in Song of Songs 2:5; Song of Songs 7:9 also has a plural form, although the APB does not visibly render it.

   Joel 1:12Proverbs 25:11Song of Songs 2:3Song of Songs 2:5Song of Songs 7:9Song of Songs 8:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “apple,” “apples,” and “apple tree” in Joel 1:12, Proverbs 25:11, Song of Songs 2:3, Song of Songs 2:5, and Song of Songs 8:5. In Song of Songs 7:9, the supplied plural form has no apparent corresponding English expression.