ποταμός potamos

Greek word for “river” · Strong’s G4215 · used 17 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

ποταμός, -οῦ, ὁ; a river, stream, torrent: 7:25, 27,:, 9:14 12:15-16 16:4, 12 21:1-2. Fig., pl., π. ὕδατος ζῶντος.†;

How it is translated

Glosses given for potamos in context, with how often each is used:

• river 9
• rivers 4
• torrents 2
• stream 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 7 (2), Luke 6 (2), Revelation 12 (2), Revelation 16 (2), Revelation 22 (2), Matthew 3 (1), Mark 1 (1), John 7 (1), Acts 16 (1), 2 Corinthians 11 (1)

Forms

• ποταμὸν 4
• ποταμῷ 3
• ποταμοὶ 3
• ποταμῶν 2
• ποταμὸς 1
• ποταμός 1
• ποταμόν 1
• ποταμοὺς 1
• ποταμοῦ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with potamos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ὕδωρ hudōr, hudatos “water” 6
• οἰκία oikia “home” 4
• μέγας megas “great” 5
• βροχή brochē “rain” 2
• προσρήγνυμι prosrēgnumi “to strike” 2
• Εὐφράτης Euphratēs “Euphrates” 2
• πνέω pneō “to blow” 2
• ἐκεῖνος ekeinos “that” 4
• πίπτω piptō “to collapse” 3
• ἐξομολογέομαι exomologeomai “to agree” 2
• πηγή pēgē “flow” 2
• φιάλη phialē “bowl” 2

Key verses

The verses using potamos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 3:6 — And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Matthew 7:25 — And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
• Luke 6:48 — He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that…
• Luke 6:49 — But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and…
• John 7:38 — He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• Acts 16:13 — And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
• 2 Corinthians 11:26 — In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils…
• Revelation 8:10 — And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the…
• Revelation 12:15 — And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
• Revelation 16:12 — And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be…
• Revelation 22:1 — And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
• Revelation 22:2 — In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.