Quick Definition
apple
Strong's Definition
something hollowed (as a gate), i.e. pupil of the eye
Derivation: feminine active participle of an unused root meaning to hollow out;
KJV Usage: apple (of the eye).
TWOT Reference: 196
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) the apple (pupil) of the eye
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּבָה (ba.vah) — apple. the apple (pupil) of the eye
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f
pupil, apple (of eye) = center area of the human eye; ≈ as a very sensitive area that nobody likes to be touched
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בָּבָה] n.f. only Zc 2:12 the apple of his eye ref