Abyss

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Abyssos ( ancient Greek ἄβυσσος Abyssos "groundless, immeasurably, chasm", latin Abyssus ) referred to in the Bible mythology the sub world .

The abyss appears several times in the Revelation of John . First of all, it is a place where, at the end of the day, crowds of locusts rise to torment all those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Then as the origin of the beast that rises from the abyss and kills the two witnesses; after all, it is the place where the dragon, the ancient serpent identified with the devil in Revelation , lies tied with a chain during the 1,000 year kingdom after being overcome by an angel.

With Paul the abyss is a realm of the dead, similar to the Greek Hades .

In Luke the term appears as a place of captivity for demons; in the story of the rich and poor Lazarus, on the other hand, the term abyssos is not used in the old Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, but χάσμα chasma ("gap, gap") to denote the depths of division between the just and the unjust in the world beyond.

As a quote, the Vulgate translation of Ps 42.8  EU became proverbial: Abyssus abyssum invocat (“Abyss calls for the abyss”).

In the Septuagint is Abyssos as a translation of the Hebrew term Tehom ( תהום, "Sea depth"), which already appears in Genesis .

Web links

Wiktionary: Abyssus  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Abyss  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
  • Abyss - Jewish Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

  1. Rev 9 : 1-11  EU
  2. Rev 11.7  EU
  3. Rev 20 : 1-3  EU
  4. Rom 10.7  EU
  5. Lk 8.31  EU
  6. Lk 16.26  EU
  7. Gen 1,2  EU , Gen 7,11  EU