ποταμός
potamos (G4215)
river
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The Greek word "ποταμός" (potamos) is a noun that refers to a river. It is a fundamental term in the geography and place domain, indicating a body of water that flows through a region. With 17 occurrences in the Bible, this word is used to describe various rivers, including those in the natural world and possibly rivers of water or metaphorical rivers. The word "ποταμός" is used in a range of contexts, from describing the geography of a region to symbolizing spiritual or metaphorical concepts. Its significance lies in its ability to convey a sense of movement, flow, and transformation, which can be applied to both physical and abstract concepts.
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The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.
saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.