2001 Translation

POTAMOS, potamos

Sounds Like: poh-TAH-moss

Translations: river, a river, stream, a stream, flood, a flood

From the root: ΠΟΤΑΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a river, stream, or a large flow of water, often implying a significant body of water. It can also be used metaphorically to describe a flood or an overwhelming abundance of something, such as a 'river of fire' as seen in some contexts. It is a masculine noun.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G4215 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:116

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 11:10

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 1:1i, 10:3c
• Judith — 2:8
• Psalms — 64:10
• Proverbs — 18:4
• Job — 14:11, 22:16
• Wisdom — 19:10
• Sirach — 24:31, 39:22, 40:13, 47:14
• Isaiah — 19:5, 32:2, 48:18, 59:19, 66:12
• Jeremiah — 26:7, 26:8
• Luke — 6:48, 6:49
• Epistle of Barnabas — 11:10

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 6:133
• Book 2 — 9:221, 14:294, 14:296, 14:298
• Book 3 — 1:17
• Book 5 — 1:16, 1:18, 1:19, 1:97
• Book 9 — 14:279, 14:288
• Book 13 — 1:13

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 10:6

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 31:2

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 2:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 2:10, 2:14
• Exodus — 7:18, 7:21, 8:3
• Joshua — 4:7
• Esther — 1:1, 10:3
• Judith — 2:8
• Psalms — 64:10
• Proverbs — 18:4
• Job — 14:11, 22:16
• Wisdom — 19:10
• Sirach — 24:31, 39:22, 40:13, 47:14
• Isaiah — 19:5, 32:2, 48:18, 59:19, 66:12
• Jeremiah — 26:7, 26:8
• Ezekiel — 47:9
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 7:10
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:10
• Amos — 8:8, 9:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 6:48, 6:49

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΤΑΜΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΠΟΤΑ — river, a river, stream, a stream
• ΠΟΤΑΜ — river, a river, stream, a stream
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟ — river, a river, stream, a stream
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟ'Υ — of a river, of the river, river
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟΙ — rivers
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟΙΣ — (to) rivers, (in) rivers, (by) rivers
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟΝ — river, a river, stream, a stream
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟΥ — of a river, of the river, of rivers
• ΠΟΤΑΜΟΥΣ — rivers
• ΠΟΤΑΜΩ — (to) river, (to) a river
• ΠΟΤΑΜΩΝ — of rivers, to rivers
• ΤΟΝΠΟΤΑΜΟΝ — the river, a river
• ΤΟΥΠΟΤΑΜΟΥ — (of) the river, (of) a river

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