Abaddon (Hebrew ×בדון 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.Metzger & Coogan (1993) Oxford Companion to the Bible, p3.