River <1,,4215, potamos>
denotes (a) "a stream," Luk 1:6-49; (b) "a flood or floods," Mat 7:25, Mat 7:27; (c) "a river," natural, Mat 3:6, RV; Mar 1:5, Act 16:13, 2Co 11:26, RV (AV, "waters"); Rev 8:10, Rev 9:14, Rev 16:4, Rev 16:12; symbolical, Rev 12:15 (1st part), RV, "river" (AV, "flood"); so Rev 12:16, Rev 1:22-2 (cp. Gen 2:10; Ezek. 47); figuratively, Joh 7:38, "the effects of the operation of the Holy Spirit in and through the believer." See FLOOD, WATER.
Note: For potamophoretos in Rev 12:15, see FLOOD, B.
