Greek noun (masculine) · G4215
ποταμός
potamospot-am-os'
river
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: potamós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4215is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4215
a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water
The King James renders it: flood, river, stream, water.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
potamos is rendered "river". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
Matthew 3:6ποταμῷ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's seventeen uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- river6
- a river3
- rivers3
- stream2
- torrents2
- of rivers1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ποταπός | potapos | of what kind? | Uses7 |
| ποταμοφόρητος | potamophoretos | flooded | Uses1 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ποταμὸν4
- ποταμοὶ3
- ποταμῷ3
- ποταμῶν2
- ποταμόν1
- ποταμός1
- ποταμὸς1
- ποταμοῦ1
- ποταμοὺς1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular5N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular3N-DSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2N-GPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
Matthew
three uses
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- ποταμῷpotamonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: River
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
- ποταμοὶpotamoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: torrents
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
- ποταμοὶpotamoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: torrents
Mark
one use
People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- ποταμῷpotamonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: river
Luke
two uses
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
- ποταμὸςpotamosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: stream
But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”
- ποταμόςpotamosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: stream
John
one use
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
- ποταμοὶpotamoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Rivers
Acts
one use
On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.
- ποταμὸνpotamonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a river
2 Corinthians
one use
In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
- ποταμῶνpotamonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of rivers
Revelation
eight uses
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
- ποταμῶνpotamonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: rivers
saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
- ποταμῷpotamonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: river
Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.
- ποταμόνpotamonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a river
But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.
- ποταμὸνpotamonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: river
And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.
- ποταμοὺςpotamousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: rivers
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
- ποταμὸνpotamonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: river
Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
- ποταμὸνpotamonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a river
down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
- ποταμοῦpotamounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: river
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.