Bible Names

Apollyon: meaning of the name

Apollyon means “a destroyer.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Apollyon in Hebrew and Greek

Ἀπολλύων G623

Apollýōn — a destroyer (i.e. Satan)

active participle of G622 (ἀπόλλυμι);

Who named Apollyon in the Bible

Apollyon in Scripture

“Apollyon” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Revelation 9:11

    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.