אֲבַדּוֹן
avadon · Abaddon, destruction
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H11 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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avadon (אֲבַדּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Abaddon, destruction”.
Abaddon: "destruction, ruin." A name of the place of the dead, alongside "Sheol." In the New Testament the name appears again in Revelation 9:11.
How to say it
a·va·don
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
- "Destruction": the place of the dead.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Job 26:6
Naked is Sheol before him, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Job 28:22
Abaddon and death say, ‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’
- Job 31:12
for it would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and all my harvest it would uproot.
- Psalms 88:11
Will your loyal love be recounted in the grave, your faithfulness in Abaddon?
- Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon are before YHWH; how much more the hearts of human beings!