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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Abaddon (A male deity/angel in the New Testament)
The name means destruction. In Revelation it belongs to the angel ruling the locusts out of the abyss, and everywhere else in the Old Testament the same word is just ruin, not a being with a name.
The name means destruction. In Revelation it belongs to the angel ruling the locusts out of the abyss, and everywhere else in the Old Testament the same word is just ruin, not a being with a name.
The Hebrew name, meaning "destruction" and rendered in Greek as Apollyon ("destroyer"), given to the angel ruling the demonic locusts released from the abyss in Revelation 9:11. Elsewhere in the Old Testament the same word simply personifies ruin or the realm of the dead rather than naming an individual being (Job 26:6, 28:22; Proverbs 15:11).
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- Revelation 9:11
