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In the Bible, the abyss is an unfathomably deep or boundless place. The term comes from the Greek word abyssos (Ancient Greek: ἄβῠσσος, romanized: ábussos), meaning "bottomless, unfathomable, boundless". [1] It is used as both an adjective and a noun. [2]
Apollyon (top) battling Christian in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.. The Hebrew term Abaddon (Hebrew: אֲבַדּוֹן ’Ăḇaddōn, meaning "destruction", "doom") and its Greek equivalent Apollyon (Koinē Greek: Ἀπολλύων, Apollúōn meaning "Destroyer") appear in the Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss.
Abyss (religion), a bottomless pit, or a passage to the underworld; Abyss (Thelema), a spiritual principle within the system of Thelema; Film and television.
And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. [15] [16] The Vulgate adds a Latin equivalent, latine habens nomen Exterminans, which the Wycliffe Bible explains as "Destroyer". The latter also describes the angel as "the angel of deepness". [17]
A star falls from heaven to the earth and is given the key to the bottomless pit. It opens the pit and smoke rises, darkening the air and sunlight. The Locusts come out of the smoke, from the pit, and Abaddon commands them to torment any man who does not have the seal of God on his forehead for five months. The sixth angel sounds his trumpet
Bottomless pit may refer to: Bottomless pit (Bible), a place where demons are imprisoned; Bottomless Pit (band), an indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois; Bottomless Pit, a 2016 album by Death Grips; Bottomless pit (video gaming), a level hazard in video games "Bottomless Pit!", an episode of Gravity Falls
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"Cast him into the bottomless pit": In chapter 12 the dragon was 'thrown from heaven to earth, where he deceived the nations' and now is thrown into the imprisonment in the abyss (cf. Revelation 9:1), prevented to deceive the nations for a long time (cf. Psalm 90:4 for the significance of 'a thousand year'). [13]