“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.”
They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon — the locusts acknowledge a sovereign, the angel (angelos) of the abyss. Abaddon (destruction in Hebrew) and Apollyon (destroyer in Greek) name this figure by his nature: he embodies destruction. Whether Satan himself or a principal demon, he represents the anti-kingdom, destruction incarnate.
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