noun
- the destroyer; the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon. Rev. 9:11.
noun
- New Testament the destroyer, a name given to the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
destroying angel of the bottomless pit (a name sometimes given to the Devil), late 14c., from present participle of Greek apollyein “to destroy utterly” (from apo- “from, away from” + olluein “to destroy”); a translation of Hebrew Abaddon (q.v.).