de-struk’-shun: In the [[King James Version]] this word translates over 30 Hebrew words in the [[Old Testament]], and 4 words in the [[New Testament]]. Of these the most interesting, as having a technical sense, is ’abhaddon (from verb ’abhadh, "to be lost," "to perish"). It is found 6 times in the [[Wisdom Literature]], and nowhere else in the Old Testament; compare Re 9:11. See [[Abaddon]].

DESTRUCTION, CITY OF; HELIOPOLIS or CITY OF THE SUN (Isa 19:18). See [[Astronomy]], sec. I, 2; IR-HA-HERES; ON.

Destruction