noun · masculine

abaddōn

GreekἈβαδδών (abaddōn)

Strong’sG3

Abaddon

stem abaddōn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Abaddon1×

What it means

Ἀβαδδών (Heb. אֲבַדֹּון, destruction; LXX, ἀπώλεια, only in Wisdom Lit., of the place of the ruined dead: Jb 26:6, 28:22, 31:12, Ps 88:12, Pr 15:11*), indecl.;

in NT, Abaddon, the angel of the Abyss: Re 9:11.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidab-ad-dohn'

a destroying angel

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King JamesAbaddon.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	abaddōn1×Ἀβαδδών	abaddōn
object accusative	abaddōn	abaddōn
direct address vocative	abaddōn	abaddōn
of, belonging to genitive	abaddōn	abaddōn
to, for dative	abaddōn	abaddōn

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

abaddōnstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

abaddōn“Abaddon”subjectnominative singular1×

Revelation 9:11“Abaddon”echalō epi autaiu basilevon ton angelon tau abussau; onomem auto Hebraisti Abaddōn kai en ta Hellēnika onomem echatō Apolluōnos.They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.