Abaddon (Hebrew ????? Avaddon, meaning "destruction"). In Biblical poetry (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11), it comes to mean "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of Gehenna.Metzger & Coogan (1993) Oxford Companion to the Bible, p3. By extension, it can mean an underworld abode of lost souls, or hell. In Revelation 9:11, it is personified as Abaddon, "Angel of the Abyss", rendered in Greek as Apollyon; and he is described as king of the locusts which rose at the sounding of the fifth trumpet. In like manner, in Rev. vi. 8, Hades is personified following after death to conquer the fourth part of the earth. Abaddon is one of the infernal names used in LaVeyan Satanism, and is first in the list?only as it comes first alphabetically?and means "the destroyer."

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