[uh-bad-n] 
| Abaddon (əˈbædən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the Devil (Revelation 9:11) |
| 2. | (in rabbinical literature) a part of Gehenna; Hell |
| [Hebrew: literally, destruction] | |
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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