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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 - The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:27 - The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell -- and great was its fall."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5 - All the country of Yehudah and all those of Yerushalayim went out to him. They were immersed by him in the Yarden river, 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. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:49 - But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the eretz without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:38 - He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:13 - On the day of Shabbat we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:26 - I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Goyim, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 8:10 - The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:14 - saying to the sixth angel who had one shofar, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Perat!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:15 - The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:16 - The eretz helped the woman, and the eretz opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:4 - The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:12 - The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Perat. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:1 - He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:2 - in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
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