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Apples of Sodom

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Apples of Sodom. Found on the shores of the Dead Sea; like a cluster of oranges, yellow to the eye, and soft to the touch; but on pressure they explode with a puff, leaving only shreds of the rind and fibres. The Arabs twist the silk into matches for their guns. Compare "vine of Sodom" and "grapes of gall" in Deuteronomy 32:32.

Bibliography Information
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Apples of Sodom'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​a/apples-of-sodom.html. 1893.