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Water as a flood (hudōr hōs potamon). “Water as a river,” accusative case after ebalen (cast). The serpent could not follow the woman or stop her flight and so sought to drown her.
That he might cause her to be carried away by the stream (hina autēn potamophorēton poiēsēi). Purpose clause with hina and the first aorist active subjunctive of poieō. For this use of poieō see Rev 17:16. This compound verbal potamophorēton in the predicate accusative (potamos, river, phorēton from phoreō, to bear) was not coined by John, but occurs in a papyrus of b.c. 110 and in several others after N.T. times. It means simply “carried away by the river.”