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ἄβυσσος

abyssos · abyss

Greek word · Strong’s number G12 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

abyssos (ἄβυσσος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “abyss”.

The bottomless deep, the depths; the realm of the dead and of evil spirits.

How to say it

a·bys·sos

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The bottomless deep, place of the dead and of demons.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

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Where it appears

  • Luke 8:31

    And they were begging him not to order them to go away into the abyss.

  • Romans 10:7

    or: Who will go down into the abyss? (that is, to bring up the Messiah from the dead).

  • Revelation 9:1

    And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth; and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him.

  • Revelation 9:2

    And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the shaft.

  • Revelation 9:11

    They have over them as king the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

  • Revelation 11:7

    And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war against them and conquer them and kill them.

  • Revelation 17:8

    The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and goes to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and will be present.

  • Revelation 20:1

    And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

  • Revelation 20:3

    and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed. After these things he must be released for a short time.