Strong's Hebrew · H11

אֲבַדּוֹן

ʼăbaddôwn · ab-ad-done'

destruction.

Definition

abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades

Derivation

intensive from H6 (אָבַד);

Appears 6 times in Scripture

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 28:22

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’

Psalms 88:11

Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!

Job 31:12

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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