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Apollyon

Smith's Bible Dictionary

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Apol'lyon. Apollyon or, as it is literally in the margin of the Authorized Version of Revelation 9:11, "a destroyer", is the rendering of the Hebrew word, Abaddon, "the angel of the bottomless pit". From the occurrence of the word in Psalms 88:11, the rabbins have made Abaddon, the nethermost of the two regions into which they divide the lower world; but that in Revelation 9:11, Abaddon is the angel and not the abyss, is perfectly evident in the Greek.

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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Apollyon'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​a/apollyon.html. 1901.
 
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