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)
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G12 — ἄβυσσος
abussos · abyss · Greek
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Luke 8:31 · ἄβυσσονand he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,Romans 10:7 · ἄβυσσον;or, ‘Who shall go down to the abyss,’ that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.Revelation 9:1 · ἀβύσσου,And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,Revelation 9:2 · ἀβύσσου·and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.Revelation 9:11 · ἀβύσσου·and they have over them a king—the messenger of the abyss—a name is to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.Revelation 11:7 · ἀβύσσου‘And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,Revelation 17:8 · ἀβύσσου‘The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.Revelation 20:1 · ἀβύσσουAnd I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,Revelation 20:3 · ἄβυσσονand he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.