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Strong's G12 ἄβυσσος (abyssos)

Abyssos means “deep” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H12 — abdan (“destruction”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G12
Language Greek
Linked Usages 52
Books 17

Strong's G12 Quick Answer

Strong's G12 ἄβυσσος (abussos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. abussos (ab'-us-sos) n. 1. depthless 2. (specially) infernal "abyss" It has 52 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include bottomless and deep. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
abussos (ab'-us-sos) n. 1. depthless 2. (specially) infernal "abyss"
Usage
52 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
bottomless and deep

Meaning and Definition

abussos (ab'-us-sos) n. 1. depthless 2. (specially) infernal "abyss" [from G1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of G1037] KJV: deep, (bottomless) pit Root(s): G1, G1037 See also: G5421

Original Word
ἄβυσσος
Transliteration
abussos
Derivation
Root: βυθός R1: 1 R2: 1037
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G12. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

abyss

Usage: ἄ-βυσσος, -ον (Ion. βυσσός = βυθός), __1. in cl., boundless, bottomless (e.g. ἄ. πέλαγος, ἄ. πλοῦτος Æsch.). __2. [In LXX (for תְּהוֹם, Gen.1:2, al.; exc. Isa.44:27, Job.41:22 for צוּלָה, מְצוּלָה, Job.36:16 for רַחַב) and] NT, as subst. (MM, VGT, see word), ἡ ἄ. (sc. χώρα), the abyss; __(a) of the sea (Gen.1:2); __(b) of the underworld, as the abode of the dead: Rom.10:7 (a paraphrase of Deu.30:13 LXX); as the abode of demons, Luk.8:31, Rev.9:1, 2, 11, 11:7, 17:8, 20:1, 3 (Cremer, 2). † (AS)

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How Strong's G12 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render abussos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

bottomless Revelation 9:1 deep Luke 8:31

How Strong's G12 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 35 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G12 (ἄβυσσος) appears 45 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G12 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G12 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 8:31 KJV

And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

Romans 10:7 KJV

Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Revelation 9:1 KJV

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.

Strong's G12 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

35 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 1:2 Septuagint / Brenton

But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

Genesis 7:11 Septuagint / Brenton

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.

Genesis 8:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

Strong's G12 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Solomon 10:19 Septuagint / Brenton

But she drowned their enemies, And cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.

Wisdom of Sirach 16:18 Septuagint / Brenton

Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, The deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, Shall be moved when he shall visit.

Strong's G12 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 17:8 Septuagint / Brenton

whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

Usage Excerpts

First 52 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G12.

Genesis 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.
Genesis 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
Genesis 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
Deuteronomy 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:
Deuteronomy 33:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to Joseph he said, His land is of the blessing of the Lord, Of the seasons of sky and dew, And of the deeps of wells below,
Job 28:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The depth said, It is not in me: And the sea said, It is not with me.
Job 36:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:
Job 38:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, And walked in the tracks of the deep?
Job 38:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
Job 41:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; And he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
Job 41:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the lowest part of the deep as a captive: He reckons the deep as his range.
Psalms 32:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; Who lays up the deeps in treasuries.
Psalms 35:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, Thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.
Psalms 41:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: All thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.
Psalms 70:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What afflictions many and sore hast thou shown me! Yet thou didst turn and quicken me, And broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 70:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou didst multiply thy righteousness, And didst turn and comfort me, And broughtest me again out of the depths of the earth.
Psalms 76:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The waters saw thee, O God, The waters saw thee, and feared; And the depths were troubled.
Psalms 77:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He clove a rock in the wilderness, And made them drink as in a great deep.
Psalms 103:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: The waters shall stand on the hills.
Psalms 105:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: So he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.
Psalms 106:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They go up to the heavens, And go down to the depths; Their soul melts because of troubles.
Psalms 134:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All that the Lord willed, He did in heaven, and on the earth, In the sea, and in all deeps.
Psalms 148:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Praise the Lord from the earth, Ye serpents, and all deeps.
Proverbs 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the clouds dropped water.
Proverbs 8:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the fountains of water came forth:
Isaiah 44:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.
Isaiah 51:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?
Isaiah 63:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,
Ezekiel 26:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee,
Ezekiel 31:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.
Ezekiel 31:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Lebanon saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Daniel 3:55 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom: And to be praised and glorified above all forever.
Amos 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus has the Lord shown me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord’s portion.
Jonah 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Water was poured around me to the soul: The lowest deep compassed me, My head went down
Habakkuk 3:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The nations shall see thee and be in pain, As thou dost divide the moving waters: The deep uttered her voice, And raised her form on high.
Luke 8:31 New Testament, KJV
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Romans 10:7 New Testament, KJV
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Revelation 9:1 New Testament, KJV
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 9:2 New Testament, KJV
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 9:11 New Testament, KJV
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 11:7 New Testament, KJV
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 17:8 New Testament, KJV
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 behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation 20:1 New Testament, KJV
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation 20:3 New Testament, KJV
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.
Wisdom of Solomon 10:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But she drowned their enemies, And cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.
Wisdom of Sirach 16:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, The deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, Shall be moved when he shall visit.
Wisdom of Sirach 24:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, And walked in the bottom of the deep.
Wisdom of Sirach 24:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For her thoughts are more than the sea, And her counsels profounder than the great deep.
Wisdom of Sirach 42:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, And considereth their crafty devices: For the Lord knoweth all that can be known, And he beholdeth the signs of the world,
Wisdom of Sirach 43:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, And planteth islands therein.
1 Enoch 17:8 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G12, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 7 usages, New Testament
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G12 FAQ

What does abyssos (ἄβυσσος) mean?

Abyssos (Strong's G12) is a Greek word most simply glossed "deep". abussos (ab'-us-sos) n. 1. depthless 2. (specially) infernal "abyss"

How many times is abyssos (ἄβυσσος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 52 linked usages for Strong's G12 across 17 books.

Where can I study abyssos (ἄβυσσος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G12 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate abyssos (ἄβυσσος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bottomless and deep. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G12 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 35 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G12, with linked reader references where each row is available.