Tappuah

Tappuah is the Hebrew word for "apple" and also a biblical name with several meanings:

Taffuh, a town on the West Bank 4 miles west of Hebron. This is the suggested location for the ancient town mentioned in 2 Kings 15:16, and named in the Septuagint as 'Tappuah'
Entappuah was mentioned in the Book of Joshua and is probably a spring near Yassuf.
Tappuah is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:43 as one of the four sons of Hebron.
Tappuah was a town bordering Ephraim and conquered by Manasseh.

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