Strong’s
G12Noun, feminine9 times in the New Testament (critical text)Where it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Luke 8:31ἄβυσσον
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
- Romans 10:7ἄβυσσον
or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
- Revelation 9:1ἀβύσσου
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
Abbott-Smith
ἄ-βυσσος, -ον (Ion. βυσσός = βυθός),
1. in cl., boundless, bottomless (e.g. ἄ. πέλαγος, ἄ. πλοῦτος Æsch.).
2. [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם, Gen.1:2, al.; exc. Isa.44:27, Job.41:22 for צוּלָה, מְצוּלָה, Job.36:16 for רַחַב) and] NT, as subst. (MM, VGT, see word), ἡ ἄ. (sc. χώρα), the abyss;
(a) of the sea (Gen.1:2);
(b) of the underworld, as the abode of the dead: Rom.10:7 (a paraphrase of Deu.30:13 LXX); as the abode of demons, Luk.8:31, Rev.9:1, 2, 11, 11:7, 17:8, 20:1, 3 (Cremer, 2).
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Sources: Abbott-Smith’s Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922, public domain) and glosses from STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAGNT (Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.