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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 besought him not to command them to go away into the abyss.
Or, "Who shall descend into the abyss?" that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fallen out of heaven to the earth, and to him was given the key of the pit of the abyss;
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss will make war against them, and will overcome them, and kill them.