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Abyss: ábyssos & təhôwm


Strong's Greek Dictionary 12: ἄβυσσος ábyssosab'-us-sosfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of G1037; depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss"


ábyssos is found in the KJV NT 9 times as:--deep, (bottomless) pit.

Luke 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

Romans 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. ... 11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

Revelation 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand... 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season... 7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,


Same(?) word in OT from Strong's Hebrew Dictionary 8415: תְּהוֹם təhôwm, teh-home'; or thom {teh-home'}; (usually feminine) from H1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply)


təhôwm is found in the KJV OT 35 times as:--deep (place), depth.

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

All texts containing təhôwm :  Genesis1:2;7:11;8:2;49:25; Exodus15:5,8; Deuteronomy8:7;33:13; Job28:14;38:16,30;41:32; Psalm33:7;36:6;42:7;71:20;77:16;78:15;104:6;106:9;107:26;135:6;148:7; Proverbs3:20;8:24,27-28; Isaiah51:10;63:13; Ezekiel26:19;31:4,15; Amos7:4; Jonah2:5; Habakkuk3:10 - http://sidnash.org/b/jQ4


Desiring to live by every word that comes from the mouth of Jehovah (Deut8:3; Mt4:4)

-Sid Nash: 2/3/2023. Latest version: http://sidnash.org/BibleWords