The bride’s answer: “Just as the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild woods, so my beloved excels his associates …

Apple tree. — So the Septuagint and Vulgate render it; the Hebrew is tappuach. Out of the six times that the word is used…

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit w…

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my
beloved among the sons

Believers are beautiful, as clothed in the righteousness of Christ; and fragrant, as adorned with the graces of His Spirit; and they thrive under t…