Noun potamos (watercourse) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSVwith a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

3: 6and they were baptized by him in the Jordan watercourse (potamos), confessing their sins.
7: 25The rain fell, the watercourses (potamos) came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.
7: 27The rain fell, and the watercourses (potamos) came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell - and great was its fall!"

Mark

1: 5And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the Jordan watercourse (potamos), confessing their sins.

Luke

6: 48That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the watercourse (potamos) burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.
6: 49But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the watercourse (potamos) burst against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of that house."

John

7: 38and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow watercourses (potamos) of living water.'"

Acts

16: 13On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the watercourse (potamos), where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there.