תַּפּוּחַ m. (b. h.; תָּפַח I) [round,] 1) apple; apple tree. Kil. I, 4 הת׳ והחזרד וכ׳ the apple and the crab-apple …, although resembling each other, are heterogeneous (כִּלְאַיִם). Cant. R. to VIII, 5 מה ת׳ זה עושה וכ׳ as the apple tree brings forth fruit in Sivan, so the Law was given in Sivan. Ib. כל אילן … ות׳ זה מוציא וכ׳ every other tree produces first its leaves, and then its fruit (buds), but the apple tree produces its buds first, and then its leaves; even so Israel advanced doing to hearing; Sabb. 88ᵃ; Cant. R. to II, 3. Ib. מה ת׳ זה אתה נותן בו איסר וכ׳ (not איסור) as the apple, for which you pay an Isar and whose scent you enjoy many times, so &c. Num. R. s. 19¹⁶ (expl. הר ההר, Num. XX, 22) הר על גבי הר כת׳ קטן על גבי ת׳ גדול a hill upon a hill, like a small apple on a large apple; a. fr.—Pl. תַּפּוּחִים, תַּפּוּחִין. Cant. R. to II, 5 אלו ההגדות … כת׳ that means the Hăgadoth whose flavor and taste are like those of apples. Men. 28ᵇ תַּפּוּחֵי הכרתיים, v. כְּרֵתִי; a. fr.—2) (from its shape) a) ת׳ עקב the fleshy part of the heel. Pesik. Par., p. 36ᵇ ת׳ עקיבו וכ׳ the apple of Adam’s heel outshone the globe of the sun; ib. Aḥăré, p. 170ᵃ; Lev. R. s. 20; a. e.—b) pile, esp. the place on the altar where the ashes were piled up. Ab. Zar. IV, 8 אע"פ … ונותן לת׳ although the gentile may take grapes in his hand and put them on the pile. Tam. II, 2 החלו … ע"ג ת׳ והת׳ היה וכ׳ they began to put the ashes on the tappuaḥ, and the t. was in the centre of the altar, containing at times as much as &c.; Ḥull. 90ᵇ. Ib. חולצו לת׳ he takes it (the nervus ischiadicus) out, and throws it on the tappuaḥ; a. e.