Does anyone know, when Eve picked the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, what that fruit was?

Answer 1

She desired wisdom as did Adam. The story is a metaphor.

Answer 2

Did Eve eat an apple?
Despite the large number of cartoons and the almost universally accepted tradition, the Bible does not say that Eve ate an apple. Why then is it so popular to believe that she did?

Genesis most definitely records that she did eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So why do people think of an apple? One reason is that the Latin word for evil is malum and the Latin word for apple is also malum.

In the fourth century AD, the word malum appeared in the Latin Vulgate translation of Genesis in the phrase ‘the tree of knowledge of good and evil’. From that time on people began to associate the apple with the fruit which Eve ate.

But Eve did not eat the fruit of the apple tree—she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Answer 3

Traditionally, the apple has been the fruit associated with Eve's disobedience to God. The fruit is methaphorical, as many have stated, in that eating it was the eqivalent to becoming a human god by having the same knowledge as God. Genesis was written when the Hebrew people were once again in slavery by the Babylonians (757 BC). They lived through what they called the diaspora. The book tells of their creation by God and their intended purpose, which they forsook to follow their own disobedient ways and the resulting dismissal from the promised land by their capture and enslavement by a pagan country. But the story also speaks of their hope and utlitmate deliverance from the oppression of slavery and sin, and being reunited in deliverance back into the promised land.

Answer 4

Literally it would be an apple in most traditions. The fruit is an symbol representing knowledge and wisdom. In the aquisition of wisdom (biting the apple from the forbidden tree) innocence was lost as the price of gaining knowledge.

Answer 5

Apple is what I recall hearing.

But....what if it was actually a fig? I think that's the one I mean. It rather resembles female genitalia when cut open. Wouldn't that be a beautiful twist to the story? It would make much more sense. Eve would then have been eating a "Girl Power" fruit!

Answer 6

Doesn’t it stand to reason that it wouldn’t be any fruit that we have ever seen? If there was a Garden of Eden, perhaps that was the only place it could grow. But I don’t think any would have been left around for future generations to find and eat. (Not that I take the Adam and Eve story literally. I think the story is simply meant to teach us about obedience to God.)

Answer 7

In most bibles the fruit is illustrated as being an apple but that is not actually the case. It never states in the bible that it was an actual apple. We just know if was some type of fruit.

Answer 8

It doesn't say. But the act of disobedience might be what opened the eyes to the knowledge of good and evil. It is evil to disobey God.

Some think that the tree fruit was an hallucinogen. Today, the devil tempts us saying we will be smarter if we smoke, drink (alcohol), take drugs, or smoke weed, etc...

Answer 9

Most people think that it was an apple, however the Bible doesn't actually state what it was. It simply refers to it as "fruit". (Genesis 3:1-6) Does it really matter what it was? Peace.

Rachel

:)

Answer 10

In AMERICA its assumed to be an apple, in the rest of the world, its considered to be the Pomegranate.

But the point of the story ISN'T THE FRUIT, its the fact that we (as male and female HUMANS) didn't TRUST God (you will die in the day you eat of the tree) enough to believe what he told us MORE THAN WHAT THE DEVIL TOLD US (you will not die). So, in effect, we "chose" A NEW GOD, leaving behind God for Satan.

Answer 11

The actual fruit is not known, but the apple has always been symbolic of the fruit.