Lexical Summary abyssos: boundless, bottomless Original Word: ἄβυσσοςTransliteration: abyssos Phonetic Spelling: (ab'-us-sos) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: boundless, bottomless Meaning: abyss -- boundless, bottomless Strong's Concordance deep, bottomlessFrom a (as a negative particle) and a variation of buthos; depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss" -- deep, (bottomless) pit. see GREEK a see GREEK buthos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 12: ἄβυσσοςἄβυσσος, in classic Greek an adjective, (ος, (from ὁ βύσσος equivalent to βυθός), bottomless (so perhaps in Wis. 10:19), unbounded (πλοῦτος ἄβυσσος, Aeschylus, the Sept. (931) 950). in the Scriptures ἡ ἄβυσσος (the Sept. for תְּהום) namely, χώρα, the pit, the immeasurable depth, the abyss. Hence, of 'the deep' sea: Genesis 1:2; Genesis 7:11; Deuteronomy 8:7; Sir. 1:3 Sir. 16:18, etc.; of Orcus (a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth: Psalm 70:20 |
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