noun · feminine
abussas
Strong’sG12
the abyss, the unfathomable depth
stem abuss-9 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄ-βυσσος, -ον
(< Ion. βυσσός = βυθός),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G12 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
bottomless, unfathomed, πηγαίRefs 5th c.BC+: generally, unfathomable, boundless, πλοῦτοςRefs 5th c.BC+
II ἡ ἄ. the great deep, LXX: the abyss, underworld, NT; the infinite void, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | abussas | abussais |
| object accusative | abussan3×ἄβυσσον | abussain |
| direct address vocative | abussar | abussair |
| of, belonging to genitive | abussau6×ἀβύσσου | abussaiu |
| to, for dative | abussa | abussai |
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
abussa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
abussan“abyss”objectaccusative singular3×
Luke 8:31… hina mē epitassateia autei eis tan abussan aperchara.… order them to go into the Abyss.
Romans 10:7ē; Tinos katabaineti eis tan abussan? houtem atō Christon ek nekroiu anagara.or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up …
Revelation 20:3kai balata auton eis tan abussan, kai kleiata kai sfragizata epanō autou, …And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over …
abussau“abyss”of, belonging togenitive singular6×
Revelation 9:1… auto tas kleidas teu freateu tau abussau;… key to the pit of the Abyss.
Revelation 9:2kai anoigata tem freatem tau abussau, kai anabainata kapnos ek teu freateu …… star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it …
Revelation 9:11… epi autaiu basilevon ton angelon tau abussau; onomem auto Hebraisti Abaddōn kai en …… a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon …
Revelation 11:7… tem thērem tem anabainarōntem ek tau abussau poiati meta autoiu polemon kai nikati …… beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and …
Revelation 17:8… atō, kai mellatō anabainarō ek tau abussau, kai eis apōleian hupagatō; kai thaumazili …… to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And …
Revelation 20:1… tou ouranou, echarōnton tan kleidan tau abussau kai halusian megan epi tan cheiran …… heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great …