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Deep

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: D

By: James P. Boyd

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Abyss, or abode, of lost spirits (Luke 8:31³¹And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. (Luke 8:31); Rom. 10:7⁷Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) (Romans 10:7)). “Bottomless pit,” (Rev. 9:1-2,11; 11:7¹And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. ²And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (Revelation 9:1‑2)
¹¹And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (Revelation 9:11)
⁷And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (Revelation 11:7)).

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