Reference: Abaddon
Easton
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.
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The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
Fausets
The Hebrew in Job 31:12 and Pr 27:20, "destruction," or the place of destruction, sheol (Hebrew); Hades (Greek). The rabbis use Abaddon, from Ps 88:12 ("Shall Thy lovingkindness be declared in destruction?") (abaddon) as the second of the seven names for the region of the dead. In Re 9:11 personified as the destroyer, Greek, apolluon, "the angel of the bottomless pit," Satan is meant; for he is described in Re 9:1 as "a star fallen from heaven unto earth, to whom was given the key of the bottomless pit"; and Re 12:8-9,12: "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, for the devil is come down." Also Isa 14:12; Lu 10:18. As king of the locusts, that had power to torment not kill (Re 9:3-11), Satan is permitted to afflict but not to touch life; so in the case of Job (Job 1-2). "He walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (1Pe 5:8). "A murderer from the beginning" (Joh 8:44), who abode not in the truth.
Elliott identifies the locusts with the Muslims; their turbans being the "crowns" (but how are these "like gold"?); they come from the Euphrates River; their cavalry were countless; their "breast-plates of fire" being their rich-colored attire; the fire and smoke out of the horses' mouths being the Turkish artillery; their standard "horse tails"; the period, an hour, day, month, and year, 396 years 118 days between Thogrul Beg going forth Jan. 18, 1057 A.D., and the fall of Constantinople, May 29, 1453 A.D.; or else 391 years and 1 month, as others say, from 1281 A.D., the date of the Turks' first conquest of Christians, and 1672 A.D., their last conquest. The serpent-like stinging tails correspond to Mohammedanism supplanting Christianity in large parts of Asia, Africa, and even Europe.
But the hosts meant seem infernal rather than human, though constrained to work out God's will (Re 12:1-2). The Greek article once only before all the periods requires rather the translation "for (i.e. "against") THE hour and day and month and year," namely, appointed by God. Not only the year, but also the month, day, and hour, are all definitively foreordained. The article "the" would have been omitted, if a total of periods had been meant. The giving of both the Hebrew and the Greek name implies that he is the destroyer of both Hebrew and Gentiles alike. Just as, in beautiful contrast, the Spirit of adoption enables both Jew and Gentile believers to call God, in both their respective tongues, Abba (Hebrew in marked alliteration with Abaddon Father (Greek, pater). Jesus who unites both in Himself (Ga 3:28; Eph 2:14) sets us the example: Mr 14:36; Ga 4:6. Jesus unites Hebrew and Gentiles in a common salvation; Satan combines both in a common "destruction." ((See ABBA.)
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It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: but even so let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: but even so let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.
And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,
For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.
And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.
And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.
And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions. And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.
And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows. And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion. And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them. And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.
And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight. And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.
And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months. They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a A woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a A woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
And they were overcome, and there was no more place for them in heaven.
And they were overcome, and there was no more place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
Hastings
A word peculiar to the later Heb. (esp. 'Wisdom') and Judaistic literature; sometimes synonymous with Sheol, more particularly, however, signifying that lowest division of Sheol devoted to the punishment of sinners (see Sheol). Properly, its Gr. equivalent would be ap
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They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
Morish
Abad'don
In Re 9:11 this name is shown to be the same as Apollyon, 'the destroyer,' who is described as 'the angel of the bottomless pit.' It is perhaps not so much one of the names of Satan, as his character personified. It occurs six times in the Old Testament, in three of which it is associated with hell (sheol): Job 26:6; Pr 15:11; 27:20; once with death: 'Destruction and Death say,' etc., Job 28:22; and once with the grave. Ps 88:11. In all these passages, and in Job 31:12, it is translated 'destruction'.
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The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
Smith
Abad'don.
See APOLLYON.
See Apollyon
Watsons
ABADDON, Hebrews corresponding to Apollyon, Gr. that is, Destroyer, is represented, Re 9:11: as king of the locusts, and the angel of the bottomless pit. Le Clerc and Dr. Hammond understand by the locusts in this passage, the zealots and robbers who infested and desolated Judea before Jerusalem was taken by the Romans; and by Abaddon, John of Gischala, who having treacherously left that town before it was surrendered to Titus, came to Jerusalem and headed those of the zealots who acknowledged him as their king, and involved the Jews in many grievous calamities. The learned Grotius concurs in opinion, that the locusts are designed to represent the sect of the zealots, who appeared among the Jews during the siege, and at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. But Mr. Mede remarks, that the title Abaddon alludes to Obodas, the common name of the ancient monarchs of that part of Arabia from which Mohammed came; and considers the passage as descriptive of the inundation of the Saracens. Mr. Lowman adopts and confirms this interpretation. He shows that the rise and progress of the Mohammedan religion and empire exhibit a signal accomplishment of this prophecy. All the circumstances here recited correspond to the character of the Arabians, and the history of the period that extended from A.D. 568 to A.D. 675. In conformity to this opinion, Abaddon may be understood to denote either Mohammed, who issued from the abyss, or the cave of Hera, to propagate his pretended revelations, or, more generally, the Saracen power. Mr.
Bryant supposes Abaddon to have been the name of the Ophite deity, the worship of whom prevailed very anciently and very generally.
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They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.