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Strong's G4482 ῥέω (rheo)

Rheo means “flow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4482 — men in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4482
Language Greek
Linked Usages 39
Books 18

Strong's G4482 Quick Answer

Strong's G4482 ῥέω (rheo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. rheo (rheh'-o) v. 1. to flow ("run", as water) [a primary verb, for some tenses of which a prolonged form rheuo hryoo'-o is used] It has 39 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include flow. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
rheo (rheh'-o) v. 1. to flow ("run", as water) [a primary verb, for some tenses of which a prolonged form rheuo hryoo'-o is used]
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
flow

Meaning and Definition

rheo (rheh'-o) v. 1. to flow ("run", as water) [a primary verb, for some tenses of which a prolonged form rheuo hryoo'-o is used] KJV: flow See also: G4483

Original Word
ῥέω
Transliteration
rheo
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4482. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's G4482 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rheo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

flow John 7:38

How Strong's G4482 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 35 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4482 (ῥέω) appears 40 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4482 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4482 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

John 7:38 KJV

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Strong's G4482 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

35 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 3:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 3:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites, and Amorites and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 13:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and Perizzites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.

Strong's G4482 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Sirach 46:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved To bring them into the heritage, Even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Baruch 1:20 Septuagint / Brenton

Wherefore the evils clove unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

Strong's G4482 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 100:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten And brothers one with another shall fall in death Till the streams flow with their blood.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4482.

Exodus 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites, and Amorites and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and Perizzites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.
Exodus 33:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring thee into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee by the way.
Leviticus 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman whosoever shall have an issue of blood, when her issue shall be in her body, shall be seven days in her separation; everyone that touches her shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a woman have an issue of blood many days, not in the time of her separation; if the blood should also flow after her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
Leviticus 20:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.
Numbers 13:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Numbers 14:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Numbers 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is it a little thing that thou hast brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, and that thou altogether rulest over us?
Numbers 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou art a prince, and hast thou brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and hast thou given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? wouldest thou have put out the eyes of those men? we will not go up.
Deuteronomy 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these are the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 11:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land, which thou gavest me, O Lord, a land flowing with milk and honey: and thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt worship before the Lord thy God;
Deuteronomy 26:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Look down from thy holy house, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given them, as thou didst swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 27:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt write on these stones all the words of this law, as soon as ye have crossed Jordan, when ye are entered into the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers gives thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, according as the Lord God of thy fathers said to thee.
Deuteronomy 31:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will bring them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.
Joshua 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord swore to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.
Job 38:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
Psalms 61:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Trust not in unrighteousness, And lust not after robberies: If wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.
Psalms 77:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, And the torrents ran abundantly; Will he be able also to give bread, Or prepare a table for his people?
Psalms 104:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He clove the rock, and the waters flowed; Rivers ran in dry places.
Proverbs 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the clouds dropped water.
Proverbs 31:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What will you keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to you: what? son of my womb? what? * son of my vows?
Song of Solomon 4:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; And blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.
Isaiah 48:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.
Jeremiah 9:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
Jeremiah 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that I may confirm mine oath, which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.
Jeremiah 39:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Ezekiel 20:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in that day I helped them with my hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.
Ezekiel 20:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:
Joel 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the fountains of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the Valley of Flags.
Zechariah 14:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
John 7:38 New Testament, KJV
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Wisdom of Sirach 46:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved To bring them into the heritage, Even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Baruch 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore the evils clove unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.
1 Enoch 100:1 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten And brothers one with another shall fall in death Till the streams flow with their blood.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4482, grouped by book.

Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G4482 FAQ

What does rheo (ῥέω) mean?

Rheo (Strong's G4482) is a Greek word most simply glossed "flow". rheo (rheh'-o) v. 1. to flow ("run", as water) [a primary verb, for some tenses of which a prolonged form rheuo hryoo'-o is used]

How many times is rheo (ῥέω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's G4482 across 18 books.

Where can I study rheo (ῥέω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4482 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate rheo (ῥέω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as flow. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4482 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 35 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4482, with linked reader references where each row is available.