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Lexicon :: Strong's G12 - abyssos

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ἄβυσσος
Transliteration
abyssos (Key)
Pronunciation
ab'-us-sos
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as a negative particle) and a variation of βυθός (G1037)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:9,2

Strong’s Definitions

ἄβυσσος abyssos, ab'-us-sos; from G1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of G1037; depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss":—deep, (bottomless) pit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G12 in the following manner: bottomless pit (5x), deep (2x), bottomless (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G12 in the following manner: bottomless pit (5x), deep (2x), bottomless (2x).

  1. bottomless

  2. unbounded

  3. the abyss

    1. the pit

    2. the immeasurable depth

    3. of Orcus, a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth used as the common receptacle of the dead and especially as the abode of demons

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄβυσσος abyssos, ab'-us-sos; from G1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of G1037; depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss":—deep, (bottomless) pit.
STRONGS G12:
ἄβυσσος, in classic Greek an adjective, -ος, -ον, (from ὁ βυσσός equivalent to βυθός), bottomless (so perhaps in Wis. 10:19), unbounded (πλοῦτος ἄβυσσος, Aeschylus, the Sept. (931) 950). in the Scriptures ἡ ἄβυσσος (Sept. for תְּהום) namely, χώρα, the pit, the immeasurable depth, the abyss. Hence, of 'the deep' sea: Genesis 1:2; Genesis 7:11; Deuteronomy 8:7; Sir. 1:3 Sir. 16:18, etc.; of Orcus (a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth: Psalm 70:21 (Ps. 71:20) ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῆς γῆς, Euripides, Phoen. 1632 (1605) ταρτάρου ἄβυσσα χάσματα, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 20, 5 ἀβύσσων ἀνεξιχνίαστα κλίματα, ibid. 59, 3 ὁ ἐπιβλέπων ἐν ταῖς ἀβύσσοις, of God; [Act. Thom. 32 ὁ τήν ἄβυσσον τοῦ ταρτάρου οἴκων, of the dragon]), both as the common receptacle of the dead, Romans 10:7, and especially as the abode of demons, Luke 8:31; Revelation 9:1; Revelation 9:11; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 20:1, 3. Among secular authors used as a substantive only by Diogenes Laërtius 4 (5) 27 κατῆλθες εἰς μέλαιναν Πλουτέως ἄβυσσον. Cf. Knapp, Scripta var. Arg., p. 554f; [J. G. Müller, Philo's Lehre von der Weltschöpfung, p. 173f; B. D. American edition under the word Deep].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
1:2; 7:11
Deuteronomy
8:7
Psalms
71:20
Luke
8:31
Romans
10:7
Revelation
9:1; 9:11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1; 20:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G12 matches the Greek ἄβυσσος (abyssos),
which occurs 36 times in 34 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 were broken up, and the [fn]flood-gates of heaven were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7 - For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains [fn]of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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 deeps of wells below,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:16 - And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:31 - (LXX 41:23) He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - (LXX 41:24) and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - (LXX 32:7) Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; who lays up the deeps in treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - (LXX 35:7) Thy righteousness is as the [fn]mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - (LXX 41:8) Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - (LXX 70:20) What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:21 - (LXX 70:21) Thou didst multiply thy righteousness, and didst turn and comfort me, and broughtest me again out of the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16 - (LXX 76:17) The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and feared; and the depths were troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - (LXX 77:15) He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 - (LXX 103:6) The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand [fn]on the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - (LXX 105:9) And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26 - (LXX 106:26) They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 - (LXX 134:6) all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye serpents, and all deeps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20 - By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24 - even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 - He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 deep up upon thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The water nourished him, the depth 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 - Thus has the Lord shewed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - (LXX 2:6) Water was poured around me to the soul: the [fn]lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10 - The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.
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