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Noun abyssos (abyss) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Luke
| 8: 31 | They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss (abyssos). |
Revelation
| 9: 1 | And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss (abyssos); |
| 9: 2 | he opened the shaft of the abyss (abyssos), and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. |
| 9: 11 | They have as king over them the angel of the abyss (abyssos); his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. |
| 11: 7 | When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss (abyssos) will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, |
| 17: 8 | The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend from the abyss (abyssos) and go to destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. |
| 20: 1 | Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss (abyssos) and a great chain. |
| 20: 3 | and threw him into the abyss (abyssos), and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let out for a little while. |
Genesis (LXX)
| 1: 2 | But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the abyss (abyssos), and the Spirit of God moved over the water. |
| 7: 11 | In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss (abyssos) were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. |
| 8: 2 | And the fountains of the abyss (abyssos) were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld. |
Deuteronomy (LXX)
| 8: 7 | For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of abysses (abyssos) issuing through the plains and through the mountains: |
| 33: 13 | And to Joseph he said, His land is of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the abysses (abyssos) of wells below, |
Isaiah (LXX)
| 44: 27 | Who says to the abyss (abyssos), Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers. |
| 51: 10 | Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the abyss (abyssos); that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed? |
| 63: 13 | He led them through the abyss (abyssos), as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not, |
Ezekiel (LXX)
| 26: 19 | For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the abyss (abyssos) up upon thee, |
| 31: 4 | The water nourished him, the abyss (abyssos) made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field. |
| 31: 15 | Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the abyss (abyssos) mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him. |
Amos (LXX)
| 7: 4 | Thus has the Lord shewed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great abyss (abyssos), and devoured the Lord's portion. |
Habakkuk (LXX)
| 3: 10 | The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the abyss (abyssos) uttered her voice, and raised her form on high. |
Jonas (LXX)
| 2: 6 | 6 Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest abyss (abyssos) compassed me, my head went down |
Daniel (LXX: Old Greek version)
| 3: 55 | Blessed are you who view the abysses (abyssos) sitting upon cheroubin, and to be praised and lorified forever. |
Job (LXX)
| 28: 14 | The abyss (abyssos) said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me. |
| 36: 16 | And besides, he enticed you out of the enemy's mouth, an abyss (abyssos), an affusion beneath it, and your table came down, full of fatnesss. |
| 38: 16 | Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the abyss (abyssos)? |
| 38: 30 | which descends like flowing water? who froze the face of the abyss (abyssos)? |
| 41: 23 | He makes the abyss (abyssos) boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment, |
| 41: 24 | and the lowest part of the abyss (abyssos) as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range. |
| 41: 24 | and the lowest part of the abyss (abyssos) as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range. |
Proverbs (LXX)
| 8: 24 | even before he made the abysses (abyssos); before the fountains of water came forth: |
Psalms (LXX)
| 33 (32): 7 | Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; who lays up the abysses (abyssos) in treasuries. |
| 36 (35): 7 | Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great abyss (abyssos): O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts. |
| 42 (41): 8 | Abyss (abyssos) calls to abyss (abyssos) at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me. |
| 71 (70): 20 | What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the abysses (abyssos) of the earth. |
| 71 (70): 21 | Thou didst multiply thy righteousness, and didst turn and comfort me, and broughtest me again out of the abysses (abyssos) of the earth. |
| 78 (77): 15 | He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great abyss (abyssos). |
| 104 (103): 6 | The abyss (abyssos), as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills. |
| 106 (105): 9 | And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the abyss (abyssos) as through the wilderness. |
| 107 (106): 26 | They go up to the heavens, and go down to the abysses (abyssos); their soul melts because of troubles. |
| 135 (134): 6 | all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all abysses (abyssos). |
Sirach (LXX)
| 1: 3 | Who can find out the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the abyss (abyssos), and wisdom? |
| 16: 18 | Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the abyss (abyssos), and the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall visit. |
| 24: 5 | I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the abyss (abyssos). |
| 24: 29 | For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great abyss (abyssos). |
| 42: 18 | He seeketh out the abyss (abyssos), and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world. |
| 43: 23 | By his counsel he appeaseth the abyss (abyssos), and planteth islands therein. |
Wisdom (LXX)
| 10: 19 | but she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the abyss (abyssos). |
Psalms of Solomon (LXX)
| 17: 19 | For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth, Springs were stopped (that sprang) perennial(ly) out of the abysses (abyssos), (that ran down) from lofty mountains. For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and justice; |
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