Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tree of knowledge

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: tree of -knowl-edge
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the trees in the Garden of Eden. In Christian tradition, Adam and Eve eating its forbidden fruit was the original sin that led to the fall of man in Genesis 3.

Example Sentences

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."
"She asked her wise rebbe how God came to be in His place, and where He found the stuff to make the world of[…]. Finding from his unsatisfying replies that the rebbe was but a barren branch on the tree of knowledge, the good little girl never betrayed to the world, by look or word, her discovery of his limitations, but continued to accord him, outwardly, all the courtesy due to his calling."

Inflected Forms

trees of knowledge (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

tree of life

Questions

What does tree of knowledge mean?: One of the trees in the Garden of Eden. In Christian tradition, Adam and Eve eating its forbidden fruit was the original sin that led to the fall of man in Genesis 3.

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