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Lexicon :: Strong's G4215 - potamos

Aa
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.
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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 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:21 - So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37 - And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth 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 at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored; and they fed in the reed-grass:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.

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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 even these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - Thus saith Jehovah, In this thou shalt know that I am Jehovah: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to 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 become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have thou this glory over me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:6 -
As valleys are they spread forth,
As gardens by the river-side,
As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted,
As cedar-trees beside the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:3 - David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:16 - And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So 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 Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11 - And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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