G4215: ποταμός (potamós)

G4215 ποταμός (potamós)

Greek

Quick Definition

ποταμός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. a river, torrent

Strong's Definition

probably from a derivative of the alternate of 4095 (compare 4224); a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water

KJV Usage: flood, river, stream, water

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ποταμός (G4215)

noun, m. | -οῦ | ποταμοφόρητος

1.76 · Geographical Objects and Features · Bodies of Water

river, stream a river or stream normally flowing throughout the year (in contrast with χείμαρρος[b] ‘winter stream,’ 1.77)

MAT 3:6 · MAT 7:25 · MAT 7:27 · MRK 1:5 · LUK 6:48 · LUK 6:49 · JHN 7:38 · ACT 16:13 · 2CO 11:26 · REV 8:10 · REV 9:14 · REV 12:15 · REV 12:16 · REV 16:4 · REV 16:12 · REV 22:1 · REV 22:2

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ποταμός, -ov, 6, fr. Hom. down, Sept. for 13 and 1%, a stream, a river: Mt. iii.6 LT Tr WH; Mk. i. 5; Acts xvi. 13; 2 Co. xi. 26 [W. § 30, 2a.]; Rev. viii. 10; ix. 14; xii. 15; xvi.4, 12; xxii. 1 sq.; 1. 4. @ torrent, Mt. vii. 25, 27; Lk. vi. 48 sq.; Rev. xii. 15sq.; plur. figuratively i. 4. the greatest abundance [ef. colloq. Eng. “streams,” “floods ”’], Jn. vii. 88.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ποταμός potamos 17x

a river, stream, Mk. 1:5; Acts 16:13; met. and allegor. Jn. 7:38; Rev. 22:1, 2; a flood, winter torrent, for χείμαρρος ποταμός, Mt. 7:25, 27

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ποταμός, -οῦ, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for נָהָר, יְאֹר;]

a river, stream, torrent: Mt 3:5 7:25, 27, Mk 1:5, Lk 6:48, 49, Ac 16:13, II Co 11:26, Re 8:10 9:14 12:15, 16 16:4, 12 21:1, 2. Fig., pl., π. ὕδατος ζῶντος, Jo 7:38.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ποταμός, “‘the river,” the Nile, is seen in P Petr II. 13(19)!° (B.c. 258-3) περὶ τὴ]ν ἀνα[χώ]ρησιν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, ‘‘at the falling of the river,” OG/S 5613 (B.c. 238) τοῦ τε ποταμοῦ ποτε ἐνλιπέστερον ἀναβάντος, ‘the river being somewhat backward in rising,’’ while in 2. 6725 (a.D. 80) we hear of the clearing of {πε ᾿Αγαθὸς Δαίμων ποταμός in length, breadth, and depth. Ποταμός is also applied in the inscrr. to an artificially constructed ‘‘canal,” e.g. 7d. go** (Rosetta stone—B.C. 196) ὀχυρώσας τὰ στόματα τῶν ποταμῶν. For the adj. ποτάμιος, see P Tebt II. 31650 (A.D. 99) +(®xvq (cf. Ac 18%) ἁλιεὺς ποτάμιζο)ς, P Giss I. 4ou 18 (A.D. 215) (= Chrest. I. p. 38) ναῦται ποτά[μ]ιοι, for ποταμίτης, ‘a river-labourer,” see P Oxy XIV. 167179 (iii/A.D.) with the references collected there, and for 4 ποταμοφυλακὶς (sc. vais), ‘‘the river-watch-boat,” see Wilcken Ostr. i. p. 282 ff. a stream” was coined by John; but it occurs as early as B.C. 110 in BGU VI. 121693) @-: cf. P Amh 11. 8515 (A.D. 78) ἐὰν δέ τι UBpoxos γένηται ἢ Kal ποταμοφόρητος ἢ ὕφαμμος, “ἸΕ any part of the land becomes unwatered or is carried off by the river or covered by sand” (Edd.), also in P Tebt II. 610 (ii/a.p.), P Ryl 11. 378? (ii/a.p.), and P Strass I. 51° (as read Berichtigungen, p. 404—A.D. 262) τῆς γῆς ταύτης [πο]ταμοφορήτου γενομέν[ης.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ποταμός (potamos) — river. ποτᾰμός, ὁ, river, stream, Ὠκεανοῖο ἐξ οὗ περ πάντες π. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἁλιμυρήεις, ἀργυροδίνης, βαθυδίνης, βαθύρροος, δεινός, διιπετής, δινήεις, ἐΰρροος, ἐρίδουπος, εὐρὺ ῥέων, θεῖος, ἱερός, ἴφθιμος, καλλίροος, κελάδων, λάβρος, πλήθων, χειμάρροος, ὠκύροος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νυκτὸς π., of the rivers of hell, [Refs 5th c.BC+] of extraordinary events, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. θαλάσσῃ ἐρίζεις, of unequal combats, [Refs]

2. metaphorically, rivers of fire or lava, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. artificial stream, canal, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

II. personified, rivergod, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

III. name of the constellation Eridanus, [Refs 4th c.BC+]