Certify

Certify - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CERTIFY, v.t.

1. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration in writing, under hand, or hand and seal, to make known or establish a fac.

The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate, the decree is usually founded.

The Judge shall certify under his hand, that the freehold came chiefly in question.

2. To give certain information to; applied to persons.

We have sent and certified the king. Ezra 4.

3. To give certain information of; applied to things.

This is designed to certify those things that are confirmed of Gods favor.

It is followed by of, after the person, and before the thing told; as, I certified you of the fact.

ser'-ti-fi: Occurs in

(1) 2Sa 15:28 (haggidh, "to show," "announce," from naghadh);

(2) Ezr 4:14,16; 5:10; 7:24 (hodha`, "to make known," from yedha'; Aramaic for yadha`);

(3) Es 2:22 the King James Version ('amar, "to say," "tell," so the Revised Version (British and American)); and

(4) Ga 1:11 the King James Version gnorizo, "to make to know," so the Revised Version (British and American).

In the English Versions of the Bible, accordingly, the word has not the strong, specific sense of "to make certain," but only the broader sense of "to make to know." Compare Ps 39:5 (Prayer Book version), "that I may be certified how long I have to live."