Lexicon potamos: a river Original Word: ποταμός, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: potamos Phonetic Spelling: (pot-am-os') Short Definition: a river, torrent Definition: a river, torrent, stream. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pinóDefinitiona river NASB Translationfloods (2), River (2), river (6), rivers (4), riverside* (1), torrent (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4215: ποταμόςποταμός, 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.
Strong's flood, river, stream, water. Probably from a derivative of the alternate of pino (compare potos); a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. Running water -- flood, river, stream, water. see GREEK pino see GREEK potos |
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