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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ποταμός

(Strong's #4215 — Noun Masculine — potamos — pot-am-os' )

denotes (a) "a stream," Luke 6:48,49; (b) "a flood or floods," Matthew 7:25,27; (c) "a river," natural, Matthew 3:6 , RV; Mark 1:5; Acts 16:13; 2 Corinthians 11:26 , RV (AV, "waters"); Revelation 8:10; 9:14; 16:4,12; symbolical, Revelation 12:15 (1st part), RV, "river" (AV, "flood"); so Revelation 12:16; 22:1,2 (cp. Genesis 2:10; Ezekiel 47 ); figuratively, John 7:38 , "the effects of the operation of the Holy Spirit in and through the believer." See FLOOD , WATER.

Note: For potamophoretos in Revelation 12:15 , see FLOOD , B.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'River'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​r/river.html. 1940.
 
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