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The deep, or the great deep, signifies in Scripture, hell, the place of punishment, the bottomless pit, Lu 8:31, compare Re 9:1; 11:7; the grave, Ro 10:7; the deepest parts of the sea, Ps 69:15; 107:26; chaos in the beginning of the world, Ge 1:2. See HELL.
And he continued to intreat Him that He should not command them to depart into the abyss.
or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring him up from the dead.
And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star having fallen from the heaven to the earth; and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him.
And when they may finish their testimony, the beast which ascends up out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, and conquer them, and slay them.