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abaddon

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A⋅bad⋅don

[uh-bad-n]
–noun
1. Apollyon.
2. a place of destruction; the depths of hell.

Origin:
< Heb ăbhaddōnōn lit., destruction
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Abaddon 
c.1382, used in Rev. ix.11 of "the angel of the bottomless pit," and by Milton of the pit itself, from Heb. Abhaddon "destruction," from abhadh "he perished." The Gk. form was Apollyon (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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