"Question" and an "Answer"
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The Bible does not identify the fruit physically. It simply calls it the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The emphasis is not on what kind of fruit it was, but on disobedience. Spiritually, the fruit can represent accepting the serpent’s lie — taking in knowledge apart from God’s word.
What does the Bible explicitly say?
In Book of Genesis 2–3, the text simply calls it:
“the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
The Bible does not name the fruit. It does not say apple, fig, pomegranate, or anything else. The focus of the passage is not the species of fruit, but the command of God and the act of disobedience.
So biblically speaking, the most direct answer is:
The fruit is unnamed.
A spiritual interpretation
Scripture often uses “fruit” symbolically:
“You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16).
“The fruit of the lips” (Hebrews 13:15).
So one could interpret the fruit in Genesis spiritually as:
The internalizing of a lie — taking in knowledge apart from God’s truth.
In that sense, “eating” represents:
Receiving
Believing
Acting upon
The tree represents a source of knowledge. The fruit represents what comes from that source. The act of eating represents agreement and participation.
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Genesis 2:9
Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him, this one bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing at all.
Mark 8:24
The man looked up and said: “I see people, but they look like trees walking about.
Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout for joy, you inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
Jeremiah 12:2
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are on their lips, but far away from their innermost thoughts.
John 8:44
You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.
Matthew 15:11
It is not what enters into a man’s mouth that defiles him, but it is what comes out of his mouth that defiles him.”
Mark 7:19
since it enters, not into his heart, but into his stomach, and it passes out into the sewer?” Thus he declared all foods clean.
Hebrews 13:15
Through him let us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that make public declaration to his name.
Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person.
Psalm 17:4
As for the activities of men, In accord with the word of your lips, I avoid the paths of the robber.
Genesis 3:1
Did God really say that you must not eat from every tree of the garden?”
Malachi 3:6
“For I am Jehovah; I do not change. And you are sons of Jacob; you have not yet come to your finish.
Psalms 119:90
Your faithfulness is through all generations. You have firmly established the earth, so that it continues to stand.
Revelation 11:2
But as for the courtyard that is outside the temple sanctuary, leave it out and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city underfoot for 42 months.
Revelation 13:5
It was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for 42 months.
Revelation 13:15
And it was permitted to give breath to the image of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who refuse to worship the image of the wild beast.
Revelation 11:3
"I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days dressed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 11:2
But as for the courtyard that is outside the temple sanctuary, leave it out and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city underfoot for 42 months.
