Abaddon

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abaddon \A*bad"don\ ([.a]*b[a^]d"d[u^]n), n. [Heb. [=a]badd[=o]n
     destruction, abyss, fr. [=a]bad to be lost, to perish.]
     1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same
        as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
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     2. Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic]
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              In all her gates, Abaddon rues
              Thy bold attempt.                     --Milton.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "Abaddon":
     Aeshma, Angra Mainyu, Apollyon, Azazel, Beelzebub, Belial, Eblis,
     Gehenna, Hades, Lilith, Mephisto, Mephistopheles, Naraka,
     Pandemonium, Putana, Sammael, Shaitan, Sheol, Tophet, avichi, hell,
     infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world,
     nether world, perdition, place of torment, purgatory, shades below,
     the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

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

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Abaddon, the destroyer