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Also known as Apollyon
right|Apollyon (top) battling Christian in John Bunyan's ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress|250px|thumb]] The Hebrew term Abaddon ( , meaning "destruction", "doom") and its Greek equivalent Apollyon (, Apollúōn meaning "Destroyer") appear in the Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss. In the Hebrew Bible, abaddon'' is used with reference to a bottomless pit, often appearing alongside the place Sheol ( ), meaning the resting place of dead peoples.
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亞巴頓（希伯來語：אבדון；'Ǎḇaddōn；古希臘語：Ἀπολλύων，Apollýōn；拉丁語：Exterminans；科普特语：Abbaton，拉丁字母轉寫：Avadon）在使徒约翰所作《新約聖經·啟示錄》第9章第11节中出現，是掌管無底坑的使者的名字。「亞巴頓」本身是一個希伯來語的字，意思是指「毀滅之地」，毁灭者或者无底坑。這個字在《約伯記》及《箴言》亦有出現，指「毀滅之地」、「死者的領域」，「不死者的象徵」。亞巴頓真实的身份依然富有争议。
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