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 Ab’acus.Abam’bou. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Abaddon.
 
The angel of the bottom-less pit (Rev. ix. 11). The Hebrew abad means “he perished.”   1
        “The angell of the bottomlesse pytt, whose name in the hebrew tonge is Abadon.”—Tindale.
 


 Ab’acus.Abam’bou. 

 
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