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Strong’s G12 · Greek

ἄβυσσος

ábyssos · ab'-us-sos

Origin from Α (G1) (as a negative particle) and a variation of βυθός (G1037);

Meaning depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss"

In the King James Version deep, (bottomless) pit.

In 8 verses of the King James Version

  1. Luke 8:31And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
  2. Romans 10:7Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
  3. Revelation 9:1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
  4. Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
  5. Revelation 9:11And 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.
  6. Revelation 11:7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
  7. Revelation 20:1And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
  8. Revelation 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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