Sense

1. soft to the touch, tender, fresh, tender
2. soft, gentle, gently, soft, delicate

Examples

• ὁ ἁπαλὸς ὁ ἐν σοὶ καὶ ὁ τρυφερὸς σφόδρα βασκανεῖ τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τὸν ἀδελφὸν καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ καταλελειμμένα τέκνα, ἃ ἂν καταλειφθῇ αὐτῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:54)
• ΚΑΙ εἶπε Δαυὶδ ὁ βασιλεὺς πάσῃ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ. Σαλωμὼν ὁ υἱός μου, εἰς ὃν ᾑρέτικεν ἐν αὐτῷ Κύριος, νέος καὶ ἁπαλός, καὶ τὸ ἔργον μέγα, ὅτι οὐκ ἀνθρώπῳ, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ Κυρίῳ Θεῷ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 29:1)
• ἔπειτα πολιός εἰμι καὶ πώγων ἔχω, σὺ δ εὐπρόσωπος λευκὸς ἐξυρημένος γυναικόφωνος ἁπαλὸς εὐπρεπὴς ἰδεῖν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 1:29)
• ὁ δέ γε Ὀροίτης καὶ πάνυ ἁπαλὸς ἦν τὼ πόδε καὶ οὐδ᾿ ἑστάναι χαμαί, οὐχ ὅπως βαδίζειν ἐδύνατο: (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 9:1)
• οἴμ ὡς ἁπαλὸς καὶ λευκός: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 537)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.