Ábyssos — G12

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. of Orcus (a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth: Psalms 70:20 ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῆς γῆς, Euripides, Phoen. 1632
2. ), both as the common receptacle of the dead

Usually translated as

pit, deep

Origin

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of G1037

• A (G1)
• bythós (G1037)

Occurrences

Ábyssos occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1), Romans (1), Revelation (7)

• Luke 8:31 — And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep (ἄβυσσον).
• Romans 10:7 — Or, Who shall descend into the deep (ἄβυσσον)? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
• Revelation 9:1 — And 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 (ἀβύσσου) pit.
• Revelation 9:2 — And he opened the bottomless (ἀβύσσου) 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.
• Revelation 9:11 — And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit (ἀβύσσου), whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
• Revelation 11:7 — And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit (ἀβύσσου) shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
• Revelation 17:8 — The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit (ἀβύσσου), and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
• Revelation 20:1 — And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit (ἀβύσσου) and a great chain in his hand.
• Revelation 20:3 — And cast him into the bottomless pit (ἄβυσσον), 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.