Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Abaddon

by Matthew George Easton

For works with similar titles, see Abaddon.

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