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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.
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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 16 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:25 - and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:27 - and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5 - And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:48 - He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:49 - And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without a foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:38 - He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:13 - And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had assembled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:26 - in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 8:10 - And the third angel sounded his trumpet: and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:14 - saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:15 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be as one carried away by a river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:16 - And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:4 - And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; and they became blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:12 - And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:1 - And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:2 - In the midst of its street, and of the river, on this side and on that side, the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree for healing of the nations.
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