Abaddon
אֲבַדּוֹןStrong’s H0011avaddon (a-vad-don)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avaddon is the Hebrew word usually translated “abaddon”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.”
Meaning
- Abaddon, a place of destruction, destruction, ruin
How it's translated
- abaddon 2
- to abaddon 1
- in abaddon 1
- and abaddon 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 28:22Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
- Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- Psalms 88:11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
- Proverbs 15:11Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Hebrew dictionary
אֲבַדּוֹן avaddon · Abaddon
Abaddon, a place of destruction, destruction, ruin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “abaddon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABAD'DON, noun
[Heb. Ch. Syr. Sam. to be lost, or destroyed, to perish.]
- The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit. Revelation 9:11
- The bottomless pit.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.