Abyss
ἄβυσσοςStrong’s G0012abussos
Appears in 9 verses of the New Testament
In short
Abussos is the Greek word usually translated “abyss”. It appears in 9 verses of the New Testament.
“And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.”
Meaning
Usually translated “abyss”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- abyss 9
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 7
- Luke 1
- Romans 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Romans 10:7Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
- Revelation 9:1And 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 pit.
- Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless 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 9:11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
- Revelation 11:7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
- Revelation 17:8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, 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.
Greek dictionary
ἄβυσσος abussos · abyss
ἄ-βυσσος, -ον (Ion. βυσσός = βυθός), 1. in cl., boundless, bottomless (e.g. ἄ. πέλαγος, ἄ. πλοῦτος Æsch.). 2. [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם, Gen.1:2, al.; exc. Isa.44:27, Job.41:22 for צוּלָה, מְצוּלָה, Job.36:16 for רַחַב) and] NT, as subst. (MM, VGT, see word), ἡ ἄ. (sc. χώρα), the abyss; (a) of the sea (Gen.1:2); (b) of the underworld, as the abode of the dead: Rom.10:7 (a paraphrase of Deu.30:13 LXX); as the abode of demons, Luk.8:31, Rev.9:1, 2, 11, 11:7, 17:8, 20:1, 3 (Cremer, 2). † (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.