Abaddon
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- This article is about the Hebrew word. For other uses, see Abaddon (disambiguation).
Abaddon (Hebrew אבדון Avadon, meaning "destruction"). In Biblical poetry (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11), it comes to mean "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of Gehenna.
In Revelation 9:11, it is personified as the demon Abaddon, "Angel of the Abyss", rendered in Greek as Apollyon.
Abaddon is one of the infernal names used in Satanism, and is first in the list—only as it comes first alphabetically—and means "the destroyer."
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- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.da:Abaddon
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