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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 they begged him not to order them off to the abyss.
Or, 'who will go down to the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ from the dead).
The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss,
But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,