A-BAD'-DON

(1) destruction, i.e., destroyer.

The king and angel (or messenger) of the abyss, whose name translated into Greek is APOLLYON (which see), who was manifested after the fifth angel (or messenger)had sounded.

Revelation 9:11 ¹¹And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

ABADDON:
a-bad'-on ('abhaddon, "ruin," "perdition," "destruction"): Though "destruction" is commonly used in translating 'abhaddon, the stem idea is intransitive rather than passive--the idea of perishing, going to ruin, being in a ruined state, rather than that of being ruined, being destroyed.

The word occurs six times in the Old Testament, always as a place name in the sense in which Sheol is a place name. It denotes, in certain aspects, the world of the dead as constructed in the Hebrew imagination. It is a common mistake to understand such expressions in a too mechanical way. Like ourselves, the men of the earlier ages had to use picture language when they spoke of the conditions that existed after death, however their picturing of the matter may have differed from ours. In three instances Abaddon is parallel with Sheol (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11; 27:20). In one instance it is parallel with death, in one with the grave and in the remaining instance the parallel phrase is "root out all mine increase" (Job 28:22; Psalms 88:11; Job 31:12). In this last passage the place idea comes nearer to vanishing in an abstract conception than in the other passages.

Abaddon belongs to the realm of the mysterious. Only God understands it (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11). It is the world of the dead in its utterly dismal, destructive, dreadful aspect, not in those more cheerful aspects in which activities are conceived of as in progress there. In Abaddon there are no declarations of God's lovingkindness (Psalms 88:11).

In a slight degree the Old Testament presentations personalize Abaddon. It is a synonym for insatiableness (Proverbs 27:20). It has possibilities of information mediate between those of "all living" and those of God (Job 28:22).

In the New Testament the word occurs once (Revelation 9:11), the personalization becoming sharp. Abaddon is here not the world of the dead, but the angel who reigns over it. The Greek equivalent of his name is given as Apollyon. Under this name Bunyan presents him in the Pilgrim's Progress, and Christendom has doubtless been more interested in this presentation of the matter than in any other.

In some treatments Abaddon is connected with the evil spirit Asmodeus of Tobit (e.g. 3:8), and with the destroyer mentioned in The Wisdom of Solomon (18:25; compare 22), and through these with a large body of rabbinical folklore; but these efforts are simply groundless. See APOLLYON . Willis J. Beecher

ABADDON:

destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Revelation 9:11). It is rendered "destruction" in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6; Proverbs 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.

ABADDON (a-băd'don), or Apollyon, (Heb. אֲבַדּוֹן, ab-bad' yon, destruction), (Gr. Áβαδδὼν, ab-ad-dohn', in Revelation 9:11, where it is rendered by the Greek, Áπολλύων, ap-ol-loo' ohn, destroyer).

The former is the Hebrew name, and the latter the Greek name, ascribed (Revelation 9:11) to the angel of the abyss, or Tartarus, i. e., the angel of death. He is represented as the king and head of the Apocalyptic locusts under the fifth trumpet (Revelation 9:11). In the Bible, the word Abaddon means destruction (Job 31:12) or the place of destruction, i.e., the subterranean world, Hades, the region of the dead (Job 26:6; 28:22; Proverbs 15:11). There is a general connection with the destroyer — referred to in 1Chronicles 21:15. It is in fact the second of the seven names which the Rabbins apply to that region; and they deduce it particularly from Psalms 88:11. 'Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in (abaddon) destruction?' (See HADES; LOCUST.)

ABADDON, OR APOLLYON:
The former name is Hebrew, and the latter Greek, and both signify the destroyer, Revelation 9:11. He is called the angel of death, or the destroying angel.

ABADDON:
the destroyer

ABADDON
("Realm of Destruction"): In rabbinic and New Testament literature, the second department of Gehenna, the nether world; almost synonymous with Sheol (Midr. Konen; compare Joshua ben Levi in 'Er. 19a). In Revelation 9:11 Abaddon is personified as the Angel of Hell: "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." In the Old Testament, however, the word is peculiar to the "Wisdom" literature, being found in Job 28:22, Job 26:6, Job 31:12; Proverbs 15:11; Psalms 88:12. In Proverbs 27:20 the Hebrew text has Abaddoh, but the marginal reading has Abaddon.
G. B. L. --K.

ABADDON:
   The angel of the bottomless pit
      Revelation 9:11

ABADDON:
See APOLLYON.

ABADDON:
Abaddon /A·bad´don/ (ȧ·băd´dŭn), n. [Heb. ābaddōn destruction, abyss, fr. ābad to be lost, to perish.]

1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

2. Hell; the bottomless pit.

[Poetic]
In all her gates,
Abaddon rues
Thy bold attempt.
Milton.

אבדון
00011:
11 'abaddown ab-ad-done' intensive from 6; abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades:--destruction. see HEBREW for 06

Ἀβαδδών
Strong's Number: 00003:
3 Abaddon ab-ad-dohn' of Hebrew origin (11); a destroying angel:--Abaddon. see HEBREW for 011

Job 26:6:
     6. (Job 38:17, Psalms 139:8, Proverbs 15:11).
      destruction—the abode of destruction, that is, of lost souls. Hebrew, Abaddon (Revelation 9:11).

Job 28:22:
Death - The grave, the place of the dead, to 'which these things are here ascribed, as they are to the depths, and to the sea, by a common figure. Though they cannot give an account of it themselves yet there is a world, on which these dark regions border, where we shall see it clearly. Have patience, says death: I will fetch thee shortly to a place where even this wisdom shall be found. When the veil of flesh is rent, and the interposing clouds are scattered, we shall know what God doth, though we know not now.

22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. -(Restored Name KJV)
22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears. -ASV

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Job 31:12:
Destruction - Lust is a fire in the soul; it consumes all that is good there, the convictions, the comforts; and lays the conscience waste. It consumes the body, consumes the substance, roots out all the increase. It kindles the fire of God's wrath, which if not quenched by the blood of Christ, will burn to the lowest hell.

12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. -(Restored Name KJV)
12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. -ASV

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Job 26:6:
Hell - Is in his presence, and under his providence. Hell itself, that place of utter darkness, is not hid from his sight. Destruction - The place of destruction.

6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. -(Restored Name KJV)
6 Sheol is naked before God , And Abaddon hath no covering. -ASV

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Proverbs 15:11:
Destruction - The place of destruction, of which men know nothing but by Divine revelation.

11 Hell and destruction are before יהוה: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? -(Restored Name KJV)
11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men! -ASV

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Proverbs 27:20:
Hell - The grave devours all the bodies which are put into it, and is always ready to receive and devour more.
The eyes - The desires, which discover themselves by the eyes.

20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. -(Restored Name KJV)
20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. -ASV

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Revelation of John 9:11:
And they have over them a king - One by whom they are peculiarly directed and governed. His name is Abaddon - Both this and Apollyon signify a destroyer. By this he is distinguished from the dragon, whose proper name is Satan.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. -(Restored Name KJV)
11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon. -ASV

All Scripture is quoted from the King James Version.

1Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Job 26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Job 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Psalms 9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Psalms 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Psalms 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Proverbs 15:11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.