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Keywords:
Ruin,
Destruction,
Hebrew,
Avadon,
Coogan
Aramaic name for destruction or ruin
Hebrew for place of destruction or ruin. Rev 9:11.
wddba Destruction
Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.
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.
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