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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Abaddon
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Abaddon, or Apollyon
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Abaddon
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Abaddon
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Abaddon
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Abaddon
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Abaddon
Hitchcock Bible Names
• Abaddon
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Abaddon
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Abaddon
King James Dictionary
• Abaddon
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Abaddon
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Abaddon
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Abaddon
People's Bible Dictionary
• Abaddon
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Abaddon
Webster Dictionary
• Abaddon
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Abaddon
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Abaddon
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Abaddon
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Abaddon
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Abaddon
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Abaddon
The Catholic Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Abaddon
Lexicons
• ܥܒ݂ܰܕ݂ܘ
• Ἀβαδδών
• אֲבַדּוֹ , אֲבַדּוֹן

a Hebrew word meaning "destruction." In poetry it comes to mean ``place of destruction, and so the underworld or Sheol (cf. Job xxvi. 6; Prov. xv. 11). In Rev. ix. 11 Abaddon ((Abaddon) is used of hell personified, the prince of the underworld. The term is here explained as Apollyon, the "destroyer." W. Baudissin (Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopädie) notes that Hades and Abaddon in Rabbinic writings are employed as personal names, just as shemayya in Dan. iv. 23, shamayim (" heaven"), and makom (" place") among the Rabbins, are used of God.