APOLLYON,1 a Greek word, which signifies the Destroyer, and answers to the Hebrew Abaddon; which signifies the same thing. St. John in the Revelations says, that an Angel having opened the bottomless pit, a thick smoke issued out of it, and with this smoke locusts like horses prepared for battle, and commanded by the Angel of the bottomless pit, called in Hebrew, Abaddon; in Greek, Apollyon; and in Latin, Exterminans.
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Ἀπολλύων, Disperdens. Heb. .אבדון ↩