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Abaddon

Abaddon destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Rev 9:11). It is rendered "destruction" in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6; Prov 15:11; 27:...

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Abaddon destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Rev 9:11). It is rendered "destruction" in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6; Prov 15:11; 27:20. In the last three of these passages the Revised Version retains the word "Abaddon." We may regard this word as a personification of the idea of destruction, or as sheol, the realm of the dead.

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