![]() ![]() In all these passages save one ( Job 31:12) the word is combined either with Sheol, "death," or "the grave," in such a way as to indicate a purely eschatological term based upon the advanced idea of moral distinctions in the realm of the dead. ![]() The term Abaddon ("destruction") appears solely in the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament and in the following narrow range of instances: Present participle of the verb apolluo, "to destroy."Ī proper name, original with the author of the Apocalypse and used by him once ( Revelation 9:11) as a translation of the Hebrew word "Abaddon" (see ABADDON) to designate an angel or prince of the lower world. ![]() ![]()
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