Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The destroyer: a name given (only in Rev. ix. 11) to the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew
Abaddon .
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- proper noun The
destroying angel of theunderworld , the undoer ordisintegrator .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apollyon comes from a Greek word meaning the destroyer.
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Now, Phineas, be content; Apollyon is beaten down.
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“Have you ever heard of a company called Apollyon Associates?”
The Election Jerome Teel 2006
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In Revelation he is the king of hell, for says the Apostle, "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon" (Rev. 9: 1.1).
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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For what is the very name Apollyon, but an occult prophecy concerning the great conqueror of Europe! nothing can be plainer!
Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864
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Without entering upon the thing in its reality, I shall only observe, 1st, That it is neither in his power, or of his nature, to be a saviour of men's lives; he is called Apollyon the destroyer.
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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Without entering upon the thing in its reality, I shall only observe, 1st, That it is neither in his power, or of his nature, to be a saviour of men's lives; he is called Apollyon the destroyer.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Without entering upon the thing in its reality, I shall only observe; That it is neither in his power or of his nature to be a saviour of men's lives; he is called Apollyon the destroyer.
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The leader of this legion of tormenting scorpions was Apollyon, meaning “the Destroyer.”
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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Be warned though that it investigates the heavy sounds even more ( "Apollyon").
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