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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))
Dictionary Aids

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 201 times in 172 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 2:10–2Ki 17:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - Now a river [fn]flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [fn]rivers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - The name of the second river is Gihon; it [fn]flows around the whole land of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - The name of the third river is [fn]Tigris; it [fn]flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the [fn]Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your [fn]descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:21 - So he fled with all that he had; and he arose and crossed the Euphrates River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37 - Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - And lo, from the Nile there came up seven cows, sleek and [fn]fat; and they grazed in the marsh grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - Then behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly and [fn]gaunt, and they stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - So Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and behold, seven cows, [fn]fat and sleek came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - “Lo, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and [fn]gaunt, such as I had never seen for [fn]ugliness in all the land of Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born [fn]you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a [fn]wicker [fn]basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the [fn]basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - “But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - “Go to Pharaoh in the morning [fn]as he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - ‘Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will strike [fn]the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - “The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will [fn]become foul, and the Egyptians will [fn]find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their [fn]streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - So Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD had commanded. And he lifted up [fn]the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile [fn]became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25 - Seven days [fn]passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - “The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - [fn]Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the [fn]streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “[fn]The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs be [fn]destroyed from you and your houses, that they may be left only in the Nile?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - “The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “I will fix your boundary from the [fn]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - “Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, at Pethor, which is near the [fn]River, in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people came out of Egypt; behold, they cover the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - “Like [fn]valleys that stretch out,
Like gardens beside the river,
Like aloes planted by the LORD,
Like cedars beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - ‘Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the [fn]Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as [fn]the western sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - “From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then you shall say to them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.’ So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - Now it came about when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until [fn]they had crossed, that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the [fn]River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - ‘Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the [fn]River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his [fn]descendants and gave him Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - “Now, therefore, [fn]fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and [fn]truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the [fn]River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of [fn]Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:3 - Then David [fn]defeated Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to restore his [fn]rule at the [fn]River.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16 - And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the [fn]River, and they came to Helam; and Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer [fn]led them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - For he had dominion over everything [fn]west of the [fn]River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings [fn]west of the [fn]River; and he had peace on all sides around about him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:65

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 - Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he [fn]stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - “Are not [fn]Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

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