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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 199 times in 170 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 2:10–2Ki 18:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - And a river proceeds out of Edem to water the garden, thence it divides itself into four heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - And the name of the second river is Geon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:21 - And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37 - And Samada died; and Saul of Rhoöboth by the river reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - And it came to pass after two [fn]full years that Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood upon the bank of the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - And lo, there came up as it were out of the river seven cows, fair in appearance, and choice of flesh, and they fed on the sedge.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, and fed by the other cows on the bank of the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - And Pharao spoke to Joseph, saying, In my dream methought I stood by the bank of the river;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and there came up as it were out of the river, seven cows well-favoured and choice-fleshed, and they fed on the sedge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - And behold seven other cows came up after them out of the river, evil and ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such that I never saw worse in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with [fn]bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - And the daughter of Pharao came down to the river to bathe; and her maids walked by the river's side, and having seen the ark in the ooze, she sent her maid, and took it up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - And it shall come to pass if they will not believe thee for these two signs, and will not hearken to thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land, and the water which thou shalt take from the river shall be blood upon the dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharao early in the morning: behold, he goes forth to the water; and thou shalt meet him on the bank of the river, and thou shalt take in thine hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - These things saith the Lord: Hereby shalt thou know that I am the Lord: behold, I strike with the rod that is in my hand on the water which is in the river, and it shall change it into blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall stink thereupon, and the Egyptians shall not be able to drink water from the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - And the Lord said to Moses, Say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy rod in thy hand, and stretch forth thy hand over the waters of Egypt, and over their rivers, and over their canals, and over their ponds, and over all their standing water, and it shall become blood: and there was blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron having lifted up his hand with his rod, smote the water in the river before Pharao, and before his servants, and changed all the water in the river into blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - And the fish in the river died, and the river stank thereupon; and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians dug round about the river, so as to drink water, for they could not drink water from the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25 - And seven days were fulfilled after the Lord had smitten the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - (LXX 7:28) and the river shall teem with frogs, and they shall go up and enter into thy houses, and into thy bed-chambers, and upon thy beds, and upon the houses of thy servants, and of thy people, and on thy dough, and on thine ovens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - (LXX 8:1) And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron thy brother, Stretch forth with the hand thy rod over the rivers, and over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - (LXX 8:5) And Moses said to Pharao, Appoint me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cause the frogs to disappear from thee, and from thy people, and from your houses, only in the river shall they be left behind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - (LXX 8:7) And the frogs shall be removed away from thee, and from your houses and from the villages, and from thy servants, and from thy people, only in the river they shall be left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - And the Lord said to Moses, Go before this people, and take to thyself of the elders of the people; and the rod with which thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and thou shalt go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Phathura, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people is come out of Egypt, and behold it has covered the face of the earth, and it has encamped close to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 - as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn ye and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Antilibanus, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - The wilderness and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and as far as the [fn]extremity of the sea; your coasts shall be from the setting of the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then thou mayest explain to thy son, saying, The river Jordan was [fn]dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - And it came to pass when the kings of the Amorites who were beyond Jordan heard, and the kings of Phœnicia by the sea, that the Lord God had dried up the river Jordan from before the children of Israel when they passed over, that their hearts failed, and [fn]they were terror-stricken, and there was no sense in them [fn]because of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers at first sojourned beyond the river, even Thara, the father of Abraam and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - And I took your father Abraam from the other side of the river, and I guided him [fn]through all the land, and I multiplied his seed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - And now fear the Lord, and serve him in righteousness and justice; and remove the strange gods, which our fathers served beyond the river, and in Egypt; and serve the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose to yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom ye dwell upon their land: but I and my house will serve the Lord, for he is holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of Chusarsathaim king of Syria of the rivers: and the children of Israel served Chusarsathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:3 - And David smote Adraazar the son of Raab king of Suba, as he went to extend his power to the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16 - And Adraazar sent and gathered the Syrians from the other side of the river [fn]Chalamak, and they came to Ælam; and Sobac the captain of the host of Adraazar was [fn]at their head.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - (LXX 5:4) For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - And Solomon kept the feast in that day, and all Israel with him, even a great assembly from the entering in of Hemath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God in the house which he built, eating and drinking, and rejoicing before the Lord our God seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? [fn]may I not go and wash in them, and be cleansed? and he turned and went away in a rage.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Osee the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to the Assyrians, and settled them in Alae, and in Abor, near the rivers of Gozan, and in the mountains of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11 - And the king of the Assyrians carried away the [fn]Samaritans to Assyria, and put them in Alaë and in Abor, by the river Gozan, and in the mountains of the Medes;

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