Topic
Bottomless, Pit
9 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Luke 8:31ISBE
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
- Romans 10:7ISBE
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
- Revelation 9:1ISBE
And 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.
- Revelation 9:2ISBE
And 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 9:11ISBE
And 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 11:7ISBE
And 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 17:8ISBE
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they…
- Revelation 20:1ISBE
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
- Revelation 20:3ISBE
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
bot'-um-les, (to phrear tes abussou, "the pit of the abyss," Re 9:1,2 the King James Version): In the Revised Version (British and American), he abussos (always an adjective in classical authors = "bottomless") is uniformly rendered "the ABYSS" (which see) (Lu 8:31; Ro 10:7; Re 9:11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1,3).
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.