potamos · river

What it means

potamos (ποταμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “river”.

A stream of water.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A stream of water flowing over the land, like the Jordan.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• river ×11
• rivers ×4
• floods ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Acts×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×8

• Matthew 3:6

  and they were being immersed in the Jordan River by him, confessing their sins.

• Matthew 7:25

  And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

• Matthew 7:27

  And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and struck that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.”

• Mark 1:5

  And all the Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were being immersed by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

• Luke 6:48

  he is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood came, the river burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

• Luke 6:49

  But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; the river burst against it, and at once it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

• John 7:38

  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from within him.’”

• Acts 16:13

  And on the day of the Sabbath we went out outside the gate beside a river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and sitting down, we were speaking to the women who had gathered.

• 2 Corinthians 11:26

  on journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

• Revelation 8:10

  And the third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a lamp, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of the waters.

• Revelation 9:14

  saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

• Revelation 12:15

  And the serpent threw out of his mouth water like a river after the woman, so that he might make her swept away by the river.

• Revelation 12:16

  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had thrown out of his mouth.

• Revelation 16:4

  And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.

• Revelation 16:12

  And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.

• Revelation 22:1

  And he showed me a river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

• Revelation 22:2

  in the middle of its street. And on either side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.