ABADDON, or APOLLYON (אבדון, destruction; Ἀπολλων, destroyer). The former is the Hebrew name, and the latter the Greek, for the angel of death, or the angel of the abyss or 'bottomless pit.' In the Bible, and in every Rabbinical instance, the word אבדון (abaddon) means destruction (Job xxxi. 12), or the place of destruc-
tion, i. e. the subterranean world, Hades, the region of the dead (Job xxvi. 6; xxviii. 22; Prov. xv. 11.) It is in fact the second of the seven names which the Rabbins apply to that region; and they deduce it particularly from Psalm lxxxviii. 11, "Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in (abaddon) destruction?"