Abaddon
- This article is about the Hebrew word; for other uses, see Abaddon (disambiguation).
Abaddon is a Biblical Hebrew word meaning "destruction".
In Biblical poetry (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11) it comes to mean "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of Gehenna.
In Revelation 9:11, it is described personified as the demon Abaddon, "Angel of the Abyss", rendered in Greek as Apollyon.
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Reference
- Article about abaddon from the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.
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