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Lexicon :: Strong's G4215 - potamos

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ποταμός
Transliteration
potamos (Key)
Pronunciation
pot-am-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from a derivative of the alternate of πίνω (G4095) (cf πότος (G4224))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:595,921

Strong’s Definitions

ποταμός potamós, pot-am-os'; probably from a derivative of the alternate of G4095 (compare G4224); a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water:—flood, river, stream, water.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G4215 in the following manner: river (9x), flood (4x), stream (2x), water (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G4215 in the following manner: river (9x), flood (4x), stream (2x), water (1x).

  1. a stream, a river

  2. a torrent

  3. floods

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ποταμός potamós, pot-am-os'; probably from a derivative of the alternate of G4095 (compare G4224); a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water:—flood, river, stream, water.
STRONGS G4215:
ποταμός, ποταμοῦ, ὁ, from Homer down, the Sept. for נָהָר and יְאֹר, a stream, a river: Matthew 3:6 L T Tr WH; Mark 1:5; Acts 16:13; 2 Corinthians 11:26 (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 a.); Revelation 8:10; Revelation 9:14; Revelation 12:15; Revelation 16:4, 12; Revelation 22:1f; equivalent to a torrent, Matthew 7:25, 27; Luke 6:48; Revelation 12:15f; plural figuratively equivalent to the greatest abundance (cf. colloquial English streams, floods), John 7:38.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
3:6; 7:25; 7:27
Mark
1:5
Luke
6:48
John
7:38
Acts
16:13
2 Corinthians
11:26
Revelation
8:10; 9:14; 12:15; 12:15; 16:4; 16:12; 22:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4215 matches the Greek ποταμός (potamos),
which occurs 16 times in 15 verses in 'Psa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:2 - for he has founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:4 - There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9 - You visit the earth and water it;[fn]
you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
you provide their grain,
for so you have prepared it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:6 - He turned the sea into dry land;
they passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:8 - May he have dominion from sea to sea,
and from the River[fn] to the ends of the earth!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:15 - You split open springs and brooks;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:11 - It sent out its branches to the sea
and its shoots to the River.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:25 - I will set his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:3 - The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:8 - Let the rivers clap their hands;
let the hills sing for joy together

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33 - He turns rivers into a desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1 - By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
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