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"etymology_text": "With reference to Genesis 2:17: ‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’ (KJV)",
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"The fruit forbidden to Adam."
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"(biblical) The fruit forbidden to Adam."
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "fruita prohibida"
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"roman": "jìnguǒ",
"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "禁果"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "keelatud vili"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"roman": "aḳrʒaluli xili",
"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "აკრძალული ხილი"
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"roman": "haprí haasúr",
"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"word": "הַפְּרִי הָאָסוּר"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"Illicit pleasure."
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"(idiomatic) Illicit pleasure."
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "keelatud vili"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "აკრძალული ხილი"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"tags": [
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"word": "הַפְּרִי הָאָסוּר"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "tiltott gyümölcs"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
"word": "forboðinn ávöxstur"
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"sense": "the fruit forbidden to Adam",
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"word": "förbjuden frukt"
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