Abaddon

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The origin of the name Abaddon is Greek

 

This is how Abaddon is written in Greek

 

Ἀβαδδών = Abaddōn

 

The  biblical meaning of the name Abaddon is destruction.

 

Abaddon was the name of the angel-prince of the infernal regions, the minister of death and the author of havoc on the earth

 

The name Abaddon appears in the bible in the following verse:

Revelation 9:11 KJV
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Ἀβαδδών (Abaddon), but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.