The story
- Biblical Hebrew · derived fromאֲבַדּוֹן“destruction, ruin”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἈπολλύων“Apollyon, the destroyer”
- English todayApollyon
From Ancient Greek Ἀπολλύων (Apollúōn, “Apollyon, the destroyer”), from ἀπόλλυμι (apóllumi, “utterly destroy”) via phono-semantic matching with Biblical Hebrew אֲבַדּוֹן (ʾaḇaddôn, “destruction, ruin”).
Words from the same roots
Biblical Hebrewאֲבַדּוֹן all →
abaddon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.