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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 Box Gen 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - The earth was [fn]formless and void, and darkness was over the [fn]surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was [fn]moving over the [fn]surface of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the [fn]floodgates of the sky were opened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - Also the fountains of the deep and the [fn]floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:7 - “For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 - Of Joseph he said,
“Blessed of the LORD be his land,
With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,
And from the deep lying beneath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - “The deep says, ‘It is not in me’;
And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:16 - “Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress,
Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;
And that which was set on your table was full of [fn]fatness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - “Have you entered into the springs of the sea
Or walked [fn]in the recesses of the deep?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - “Water [fn]becomes hard like stone,
And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:31 - “He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - “Behind him he makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - He gathers the waters of the sea together [fn]as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - Your righteousness is like the [fn]mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep.
O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - You who have shown [fn]me many troubles and distresses
Will revive [fn]me again,
And will bring [fn]me up again from the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:21 - May You increase my greatness
And turn to comfort me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:16 - The waters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 - You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - Thus He rebuked the [fn]Red Sea and it dried up,
And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:26 - They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;
Their soul melted away in their misery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 - Whatever the LORD pleases, He does,
In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise the LORD from the earth,
Sea monsters and all deeps;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20 - By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the skies drip with dew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:24 - “When there were no depths I was [fn]brought forth,
When there were no springs abounding with water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - “It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Was it not You who dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 - Who led them through the depths?
Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus says the Lord GOD, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - ‘The waters made it grow, the [fn]deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually [fn]extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the [fn]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [fn]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 - Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the [fn]farm land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:5 - “Water encompassed me to the [fn]point of death.
The great deep [fn]engulfed me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10 - The mountains saw You and quaked;
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep uttered forth its voice,
It lifted high its hands.
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