Strong H11אֲבַדּוֹן
Abaddon
- Transliteration
- 'ăbaddôn
- Pronunciation
- ab-ad-done'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Intensively from H6; abstractly a perishing; concretely Hades: - destruction.
Detailed definition
Abaddon, a place of destruction, destruction, ruin
In the biblical story
Abaddon
The angel of the bottomless pit, meaning "destruction"
Abaddon (Hebrew) or Apollyon (Greek), meaning "destruction" or "destroyer," is the name of the angel of the bottomless pit .
In the Bible
Strong H11 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- destruction6
First verses
- Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- Job 28:22Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
- Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- Psalms 88:11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
- Proverbs 15:11Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
- Proverbs 27:20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.