Revelation 9:11

They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — The narrator records this designation immediately after describing the locust plague’s five-month torment and just before announcing two remaining woes.

The words — βασιλέα (basilea) = a king and ἄγγελον (angelon) = angel. The text literally identifies the swarm’s ruler as a single angelic king.

The thread — The name Abaddon appears in Job 26:6 as a place without covering, John 16:11 references the condemned prince of this world, and Revelation 9:1 introduces the fallen star who receives the Abyss key.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition of a specific named authority over the Abyss rather than a generic force, and it requires tracing the biblical thread from judged rulership to its present judgment.

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The Greek words

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

Job 26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
John 16:11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.
Revelation 9:1 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 14:30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
John 12:31 Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
Ephesians 2:2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
1 John 4:4 You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.