Editing Abaddon (section)

==Judaism==

===Hebrew Bible===
The term ''abaddon'' appears six times in the [[Masoretic text]] of the Hebrew Bible; ''abaddon'' means destruction or "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is accompanied by [[Sheol]]. 
* [[Book of Job|Job]] 26:6: Sheol is naked before Him; Abaddon has no cover.
* Job 28:22: Abaddon and Death say, "We have only a report of it."
* Job 31:12: A fire burning down to Abaddon, Consuming the roots of all my increase.
* [[Book of Psalms|Psalm]] 88:11: Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
* [[Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]] 15:11: Sheol and Abaddon lie exposed to the LORD, How much more the minds of men! 
* Proverbs 27:20: Sheol and Abaddon cannot be satisfied, Nor can the eyes of man be satisfied.<ref name="JPS">[[New Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh|JPS]], 1985</ref>

===Second Temple era texts===
The [[Thanksgiving Hymns]]—a text found amongst the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] in 1947—tell of "the Sheol of Abaddon" and of the "torrents of [[Belial]] [that] burst into Abaddon". The [[Pseudo-Philo|''Biblical Antiquities'']] (misattributed to [[Philo]]) mention Abaddon as a place (destruction) rather than as an individual. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of [[Gehenna]].<ref name="oxford">{{cite book|last1= Metzger|first1= Bruce M.|last2= Coogan|first2= Michael David|title= The Oxford Companion to the Bible|url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195046458|url-access= registration|date= 1993|publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn= 0199743916|page= [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195046458/page/3 3]}}</ref> By extension, the name can refer to an underworld abode of lost souls, or Gehenna.

===Rabbinical literature===
In some legends, Abaddon is identified as a realm where the [[Damnation|damned]] lie in fire and snow, one of the places in [[Gehenna]] that [[Moses]] visited.<ref name="Ginzberg">{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/loj/loj206.htm |title=Chapter IV: Moses in Egypt |publisher=Sacred-texts.com |access-date=3 April 2014}}</ref>