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==Origin==

==Origin==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''abissus'', from Late Latin ''abyssus'', from [[Greek]] ''ἄβυσσο'', from ''abyssos'', adjective, bottomless, from a- + ''byssos'' depth; perhaps akin to [[Greek]] ''bathys'' deep

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''abissus'', from Late Latin ''abyssus'', from [[Greek]] ''ἄβυσσο'', from ''abyssos'', adjective, bottomless, from a- + ''byssos'' depth; perhaps akin to [[Greek]] ''bathys'' deep

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: the bottomless gulf, pit, or [[chaos]] of the old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogony cosmogonies]

*1: the bottomless gulf, pit, or [[chaos]] of the old [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogony cosmogonies]

*2a : an immeasurably deep gulf or great [[space]]  

*2a : an immeasurably deep gulf or great [[space]]  

:b : [[intellectual]] or [[moral]] depths  

:b : [[intellectual]] or [[moral]] depths  

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

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

In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint], or [[Greek]] version of the [[Hebrew Bible]], the [[word]] represents both the [[original]] [[chaos]] ([https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis Genesis 1:2]) and the [[Hebrew]] ''tehom'' ("a surging [[water]]-deep"), which is used also in [[apocalyptic]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbala 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmography 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint], or [[Greek]] version of the [[Hebrew Bible]], the [[word]] represents both the [[original]] [[chaos]] ([https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis Genesis 1:2]) and the [[Hebrew]] ''tehom'' ("a surging [[water]]-deep"), which is used also in [[apocalyptic]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbala 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmography 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol Sheol].  

In the [[parable]] of [[Lazarus]] there is an abyss between the [[righteous]] dead and the [[wicked]] dead in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol Sheol].  

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Revelation#Chapter_9 Revelation 9:11] states that the destroying [[angel]] shall arise out of the abyss during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_times end times].

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Revelation#Chapter_9 Revelation 9:11] states that the destroying [[angel]] shall arise out of the abyss during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_times end times].

==See also==

==See also==

*'''''[[Chasm]]'''''

*'''''[[Chasm]]'''''

*'''''[[Vacuum]]'''''

*'''''[[Vacuum]]'''''

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]

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