The phrase "open abyss of heaven" is often used during bad weather, accompanied by heavy rain for a long time. But the meaning of this phrase is not completely understood by everyone. And it is not entirely clear what exactly “opened up”. Details about what it is, the abyss, about the meaning and origin of phraseology, read the article.
Let's turn to the dictionary
There, the meaning of "abyss" is given in several ways:
- A regional colloquial word that means bad weather with heavy rain and sleet.
- Also colloquial - swamp, liquid mud.
- Book, in an outdated interpretation - water depths, abyss, abyss.
- Also obsolete - a rocky steep cliff, a place of rapid and rapid flow in a stream, in a river, rapids.
Next, words that are close in meaning to the subject will be examined.
Synonyms
Among them are such as:
- slush;
- mud;
- rain;
- shower;
- pouring rain;
- mash;
- abyss;
- non-showable dirt;
- rain like a bucket;
- abyss;
- depth;
- depth;
- pool;
- abyss;
- swamp;
- quagmire;
- abyss;
- failure;
- dark.
Next will be studied the etymology of the lecture “abyss”.
Origin
The word comes from the old Russian "abyss" and the Old Slavonic "bread", meaning "stream", "waterfall". Considered related:
- Serbo-Croatian “hљȅb” in the meaning of “abyss” and “hљȅp” meaning “waterfall”, “gateway”;
- Mid-High German slamp, which translates as "feast" or "drinking";
- English slump - in the translation "pond", "puddle";
- Dutch slemp for tidbits;
- Lithuanian klampà - marshland, swamp and klimpti - “get bogged down”.
- New High German schlampen, which means "slurp", "drink a lot."
In conclusion, consideration of the fact that this is an abyss, we will figure out where the well-known expression with this word came from.
global flood
It is with him that the use of the words "the abyss of heaven is opened." In the book of Genesis there is a story about the sources of the great abyss that opened and opened the abyss (windows) of heaven. After this, rains fell on the ground for forty days and forty nights.
The Flood is a story about global flooding that is widespread among many nations and in religious texts. As a result, almost all people on earth died. According to this narrative, the flood was God's punishment for breaking the law and unbelief.
The connection between the present floods, as well as the increase in the level of the World Ocean in past historical periods, and the story of the flood today is controversial. Currently, this expression is used in a humorous, ironic sense.