What does the apple symbolizes in the book of Genesis?
…that Eve coaxed Adam to share with her. “As a result, in the story of Adam and Eve the apple became a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man into sin, and sin itself. In Latin, the words for ‘apple’ and for ‘evil’ are similar in the singular (malus — apple, malum — evil) and identical in the plural (mala). This may also have influenced the apple becoming interpreted as the biblical ‘forbidden fruit’, although the word malus for apple comes from the Hittite mahla meaning “grapevine, branch” and has nothing to do with malum. The larynx in the human throat has been called Adam’s apple because of a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit sticking in the throat of Adam. The apple as symbol of sexual seduction has been used to imply sexuality between men, possibly in an ironic vein.” And personally as a Christian, it has been my knowledge that the fruit apple symbolizes temptation – when Adam bit the apple, that’s when sin was conceived. And women are know
