# H11 אֲבַדּוֹן

אֲבַדּוֹן (ʼăbaddôwn), Strong’s H11: abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades KJV: destruction.. Occurs 5 times.

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*ʼăbaddôwn* — abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades

KJV: destruction.

Derived from [אָבַד ʼâbad](https://besorah.bible/word/H6) (to wander away, i.e. lose oneself)

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲבַדּוֹן n.f. ? Pr 27:20 abstr. nearly = n.pr. (place of) Destruction, Ruin, ’Abaddôn (cf. 𝔖 Jb 28:22 etc.)—אֲבַדּֽוֹן Jb 26:6 (+ 4 t.); abbrev. אבדה Kt אֲבַדּֽוֹ Qr Pr 27:20.—Place of ruin in Shᵉʼôl for lost or ruined dead, as development of earlier distinction of condition in Shᵉʼôl (v. שְׁאוֹל). Only in WisdLt; Jb 31:12; ∥ שׁאול Jb 26:6 Pr 15:11 27:20; ∥ מות Jb 28:22; ∥ קבר ψ 88:12.

## Where it occurs
- [Psalms 88:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/88?v=12) — Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
- [Proverbs 15:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/15?v=11) — Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
- [Job 26:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/26?v=6) — Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- [Job 28:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/28?v=22) — Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
- [Job 31:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/31?v=12) — for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.