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# A [[pit]] with no visible [[bottom]]; an [[abyss]], see [[Chaos (cosmogony)]]. # A [[pit]] with no visible [[bottom]]; an [[abyss]], see [[Chaos (cosmogony)]].
# [[hell|Hell]]. # [[hell|Hell]].
-#: ''The Bible: Revelations 9:11''+|}
-#: ''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.''+[[Image:Magnum Chaos by Lorenzo Lotto and Giovan Francesco Capoferri.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Magnum Chaos]]'' (c. 1524 ) by [[Lorenzo Lotto]]]]
-# An endless resource or supply.+{{Template}}
-#: '''1994''': ''Asia in the Making of Europe'', Donald Frederick Lach+'''Abyss''' refers to a bottomless pit, to the [[underworld]], to the [[hadal zone|deepest ocean floor]], or to [[hell]].
-#: ''Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by [[Joseph Justus Scaliger]] (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the '''bottomless pit''' of erudition."+ 
-# A person with an apparently boundless [[appetite]]; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.+The English word "abyss" derives from the ''abyssimus'' ([[superlative]] of ''abyssus'') through [[French language|French]] ''abisme'' (''abîme'' in modern French), hence the poetic form "abysm", with examples dating to 1616 and earlier to rhyme with "time". The Latin word is borrowed from the [[ancient Greek|Greek]] ''abussos'' (also [[Romanization of Greek|transliterated]] as ''abyssos''), which is conventionally analyzed as deriving from the Greek element meaning "deep, bottom" with an [[alpha privative]], hence "bottomless."
-#: '''2006''': ''The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit'' ([[blog]] entry), Phillip Rodokanakis+ 
-#: ''In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a '''bottomless pit's''' insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.''+In the [[Septuagint]], or Greek version of the [[Hebrew Bible]], the word represents both the original unfinished creation ([[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 1:2) and the Hebrew ''[[tehom]]'' ("a surging water-deep"), which is used also in [[apocalyptic]] and [[kabbalistic]] literature and in the [[New Testament]] for hell; the place of punishment; in the Revised (not the Authorized) version of the [[Bible]] "abyss" is generally used for this idea. Primarily in the [[Septuagint]] [[cosmography]] the word is applied both to the waters under the earth which originally covered it, and from which the springs and rivers are supplied and to the waters of the firmament which were regarded as closely connected with those below.
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 +In the parable of [[Lazarus and Dives|Lazarus]] there is an abyss between the righteous dead and the wicked dead in [[Sheol]].
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  1. A pit with no visible bottom; an abyss, see Chaos (cosmogony).
  2. Hell.

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Abyss refers to a bottomless pit, to the underworld, to the deepest ocean floor, or to hell.

The English word "abyss" derives from the abyssimus (superlative of abyssus) through French abisme (abîme in modern French), hence the poetic form "abysm", with examples dating to 1616 and earlier to rhyme with "time". The Latin word is borrowed from the Greek abussos (also transliterated as abyssos), which is conventionally analyzed as deriving from the Greek element meaning "deep, bottom" with an alpha privative, hence "bottomless."

In the Septuagint, or Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, the word represents both the original unfinished creation (Genesis 1:2) and the Hebrew tehom ("a surging water-deep"), which is used also in apocalyptic and kabbalistic literature and in the New Testament for hell; the place of punishment; in the Revised (not the Authorized) version of the Bible "abyss" is generally used for this idea. Primarily in the Septuagint cosmography the word is applied both to the waters under the earth which originally covered it, and from which the springs and rivers are supplied and to the waters of the firmament which were regarded as closely connected with those below.

In the parable of Lazarus there is an abyss between the righteous dead and the wicked dead in Sheol.





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