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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 17 times in 17 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:6 - and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:25 - The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:27 - The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5 - People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed 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 down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:49 - But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:38 - let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, '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 Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:26 - I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 8:10 - Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:14 - saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:15 - Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:16 - but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:4 - Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:12 - Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:1 - Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life - water as clear as crystal - pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:2 - flowing down the middle of the city's main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.
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