ἄβυσσος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=in classic Greek an adjective, (ος, (from ὁ [[βύσσος]] equivalent to [[βυθός]]), [[bottomless]] (so [[perhaps]] in [[unbounded]] ([[πλοῦτος]] [[ἄβυσσος]], [[Aeschylus]], the Sept. (931) 950). in the Scriptures ἡ [[ἄβυσσος]] (the Sept. for תְּהום) [[namely]], [[χώρα]], the [[pit]], the [[immeasurable]] [[depth]], the [[abyss]]. Hence, of 'the [[deep]]' [[sea]]: ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῆς γῆς, [[Euripides]], Phoen. 1632 (1605) ταρτάρου ἄβυσσα χάσματα, Clement of [[Rome]], 1 Corinthians 20,5 [ET] ἀβύσσων ἀνεξιχνίαστα κλίματα, ibid. 59,3 [ET] ὁ ἐπιβλέπων ἐν ταῖς ἀβύσσοις, of God; (Act. Thom.32ὁ [[τήν]] ἄβυσσον τοῦ ταρτάρου οἴκων, of the [[dragon]])), [[both]] as the [[common]] [[receptacle]] of the [[dead]], [[Diogenes]] Laërtius 4 (5) 27 κατῆλθες [[εἰς]] μέλαιναν Πλουτέως ἄβυσσον. Cf. Knapp, Scripta var. Arg., p. 554 f; (J. G. Müller, [[Philo]]'s Lehre von der Weltschöpfung, p. 173 f; B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Deep).