198. Abbadon
This Hebrew word means "destruction" or "ruin." It is found untranslated in Revelation 9:11, where it is the name of the angle of the bottomless pit. But in the Old Testament, it is not the name of an angel but of a place, often translated as "hell" or "destruction." Clearly, with such a name the angel of the bottomless pit is a nasty character. Milton, in his Paradise Lost, used the name Abaddon for the bottomless pit itself.
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