Greek noun (feminine) · G12
ἄβυσσος
abyssosab'-us-sos
in cl.; [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ábyssos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G12is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G12
depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss"
The King James renders it: deep, (bottomless) pit.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
abyssos is rendered "in cl.; [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "in cl.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 8:31And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
Luke 8:31ἄβυσσον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's nine uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: in cl., and [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in cl.boundless | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 8:31And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss. |
| [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם | Tagged as
| WhereGenesis 1:2Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀβύσσου6
- ἄβυσσον3
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular6N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
Luke
one use
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
- ἄβυσσονabussonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: abyss
Romans
one use
or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
- ἄβυσσονabussonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: abyss?’
Revelation
seven uses
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.
- ἀβύσσουabussounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: abyss
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
- ἀβύσσουabussounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: abyss
They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
- ἀβύσσουabussounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: abyss
When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
- ἀβύσσουabussounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: abyss
The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
- ἀβύσσουabussounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: abyss
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
- ἀβύσσουabussounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Abyss
And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.
- ἄβυσσονabussonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Abyss
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.