Brewer's: Abaddon

The angel of the bottomless pit (Rev. ix. 11). The Hebrew abad means “he perished.”

“The angell of the bottomlesse pytt, whose name in the hebrew tonge is Abadon.”

Tindale.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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