BOTTOMLESS PIT
The expression "bottomless pit" literally means "shaft of the abyss" (Revelation 9:1, 2 marg.) and refers to an "abyss," that is, a boundless or bottomless place (Revelation 20:1, 3). In Scripture the bottomless pit is associated with the underworld and is divinely used as a place of confinement.
place of:
♦ torment for demons:
♦ the dead:
♦ confinement for locusts which torment men:
♦ origin of the beast:
(See also ANTICHRIST)
♦ imprisonment for Satan:
capable of:
♦ being opened:
• Revelation 9:1-2 (cf. 20:3)
♦ being sealed:
♦ key to
♦ smoke from
♦ angel of
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.