Etymology

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon (Hebrew: אבדון‎; ’ăḇaddōn) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem ’ăḇāḏ (אָבַד)[1] "perish" (transitive "destroy"), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint, an early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, renders "Abaddon" as "ἀπώλεια", while the Greek Apollyon is the active participle of apollymi (ἀπόλλυμι), "to destroy".[2]