Strong G3140μαρτυρέω
to testify
- Transliteration
- martureō
- Pronunciation
- mar-too-reh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G3144; to be a witness that is testify (literally or figuratively): - charge give [evidence] bear record have (obtain of) good (honest) report be well reported of testify give (have) testimony (be bear give obtain) witness.
Detailed definition
μαρτυρέω, -ῶ
(μάρτυς), [in LXX chiefly for עֵד (עֵד (Gen.31:47-48, al.), also for עוּד hi. (Gen.43:3, La 2:13), עָנָה (Num.35:30);]
__(a) prop., to be a witness, bear witness, testify: absol. (find., al.), Jhn.15:27, Act.26:5; parenthetical (Bl., § 79, 7; MM, xvi), 2Co.8:3; with dative of person(s) (comm. and incomm.; El., § 37, 2), Act.22:5, Heb.10:15; id. before ὅτι, Mat.23:31, Rom.10:2, al.; accusative and inf., Act.10:43; with accusative of thing(s) (cl.), Jhn.3:11, Rev.22:16, 20; with accusative cogn., before περί, Jhn.5:32, 1Jn.5:10; with dative of thing(s), Jhn.5:33, Act.14:3, al.; before περί, with genitive (of person(s) and of thing(s)), Jhn.1:7-8, 15 2:25 18:23 21:24, al.; id. before ὅτι, Jhn.5:36 7:7; ὅτι, Jhn.1:34 4:44 al.; ὅτι recit., Jhn.4:39; κατά before ὅτι, 1Co.15:15; pass., Heb.7:8; ptcp., Rom.3:21; impers., Heb.7:17;
__(b) in late Gk., to witness favourably, give a good report, approve (Bl., § 54, 3; MM, xvi; Deiss., BS, 265): with dative of person(s), Luk.4:22; before ἐπί with dative of thing(s), Heb.11:4; pass., Act.6:3; before ἐν, 1Ti.5:10, Heb.11:2; διά, with genitive of thing(s), Heb.11:39; with genitive of person(s), Act.10:22, al.; impers., III Jn 12 (cf. ἐπι, συν-επι-, κατα-, συν-μαρτυρέω)
(AS)
(μάρτυς), [in LXX chiefly for עֵד (עֵד (Gen.31:47-48, al.), also for עוּד hi. (Gen.43:3, La 2:13), עָנָה (Num.35:30);]
__(a) prop., to be a witness, bear witness, testify: absol. (find., al.), Jhn.15:27, Act.26:5; parenthetical (Bl., § 79, 7; MM, xvi), 2Co.8:3; with dative of person(s) (comm. and incomm.; El., § 37, 2), Act.22:5, Heb.10:15; id. before ὅτι, Mat.23:31, Rom.10:2, al.; accusative and inf., Act.10:43; with accusative of thing(s) (cl.), Jhn.3:11, Rev.22:16, 20; with accusative cogn., before περί, Jhn.5:32, 1Jn.5:10; with dative of thing(s), Jhn.5:33, Act.14:3, al.; before περί, with genitive (of person(s) and of thing(s)), Jhn.1:7-8, 15 2:25 18:23 21:24, al.; id. before ὅτι, Jhn.5:36 7:7; ὅτι, Jhn.1:34 4:44 al.; ὅτι recit., Jhn.4:39; κατά before ὅτι, 1Co.15:15; pass., Heb.7:8; ptcp., Rom.3:21; impers., Heb.7:17;
__(b) in late Gk., to witness favourably, give a good report, approve (Bl., § 54, 3; MM, xvi; Deiss., BS, 265): with dative of person(s), Luk.4:22; before ἐπί with dative of thing(s), Heb.11:4; pass., Act.6:3; before ἐν, 1Ti.5:10, Heb.11:2; διά, with genitive of thing(s), Heb.11:39; with genitive of person(s), Act.10:22, al.; impers., III Jn 12 (cf. ἐπι, συν-επι-, κατα-, συν-μαρτυρέω)
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3140 appears in 75 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- witness23
- bear16
- testify15
- record10
- report8
- give4
- testifieth4
- bare2
- charge1
- he1
- obtain1
- testimony1
First verses
- Matthew 23:31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
- Luke 4:22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
- Luke 11:48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
- John 1:7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
- John 1:8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
- John 1:15John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
- John 1:32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
- John 1:34And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
- John 2:25And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
- John 3:11Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
- John 3:26And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
- John 3:28Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
- John 3:32And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
- John 4:39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
- John 4:44For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
- John 5:31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
- John 5:32There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
- John 5:33Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
- John 5:36But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
- John 5:37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
μαρτῠρ-έω,
future -ήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.21)]:—passive, future μαρτυρηθήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.13, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.40)]; μαρτυρήσομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus (see.below 9), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.37:)]aorist ἐμαρτυρήθην: perfect μεμαρτύρημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.16)], used in active sense, [LXX (LXX.Gen.43.3)]:—bear witness, give evidence:—Constr.:
1 absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 4.7, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).48; μαρτυροῦντι πιστεύειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.7; ἐξέστω καὶ τοῖς δούλοις μαρτυρεῖν “PLille” 29.20 (3rd c.BC),compare “SIG” 953.19 (Calymna, 2nd c.BC), etc.)]
2 with dative person, bear witness to or in favour of another, confirm what he says, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 594, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.94, etc.)]; μαρτυρέει μοι τῇ γνώμῃ, ὅτι.. bears witness to my opinion, that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.18, compare 4.29; μαρτυρεῖς σαυτῷ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 532)]; especially bear favourable witness to, give a good report of a person, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 22.657 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; πάντες ἐμαρτύρουν αὐτῷ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Eu. Luc.” 4.22. b. with _dative_ _of things_, μ. τῇ διαθήκῃ “POxy.” 494.33 (2nd c.AD), etc.)]
3 with accusative of things, testify to a thing, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 102, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.108, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 515, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 244d; μ. τινί τι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.21, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 797 (Lyric poetry).)]
4 μ. περί τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 21a; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.54.)]
5 with infinitive, testify that a thing is, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 34, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1265, etc.)]; τίς σοι μαρτυρήσει ταῦτ᾽ ἐμοῦ κλύει; that he heard.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tr.” 422, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 977; ὁ κληθεὶς μαρτυρείτω ἀληθῆ μαρτυρεῖν “PHal.” 1.225 (3rd c.BC))]: rarely with participle, μαρτυρεῖτέ [μοι].. ῥινηλατούσῃ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1184; μ. τισὶ παραγινομέναις 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.46.)]
6 μ. τινὶ ὡς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 494, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 523c; σώματα.. ὡς ἔστιν, αὐτὴ ἡ αἴσθησις.. μ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.6U.)]; μ. ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.25.)]
7 μ. τινὶ τῆς συμμαχίας testify to, acknowledge the value of his alliance, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 13.5.3.)]
8 with accusative cognate, μαρτυρίαν μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 11.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 399b)]; μ. ἀκοήν give hearsay evidence, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.4)]; μ. ψεῦδος, ψεύδη, bear false witness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Amipsias Comicus 13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.16; τὰ ψευδῆ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.4; τἀληθῆ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.46)]:—passive, μαρτυρίαι μαρτυρηθεῖσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.1; μεμαρτύρηταί τι περί τινος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.16, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.66.)]
9 impersonal in passive, παρ᾽ ἄλλου ποιητοῦ μαρτυρεῖται testimony is borne by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 344d)]; οἶδα.. μαρτυρήσεσθαί μοι ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.8.10, compare “Ap.” 26)]; μεμαρτύρηται ὑμῖν testimony has been given before you, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.55, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 9.5.)]
10 passive, μαρτυρεῖταί μοι σοφία is ascribed to me, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.26)]; μαρτυροῦμαι ἐμπειρίαν I have it ascribed to me, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.58a, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 10; καλοκἀγαθίαν μαρτυρούμενος 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 15.10.5)]; μαρτυροῦμαι ἐπί τινι I bear a character for.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.25 f)]; ἄνδρας μαρτυρουμένους men whose character is approved by testimony, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Acts.6.3; τεχνίτας.. μαρτυρηθέντας ὑπό τινος “SIG” 799.28 (Cyzicus, 1st c.AD))]; δι᾽ ὅλης οἰκουμένης μαρτυρούμενον θεόν [Refs (“Sammelb.” 1070 (from Abydos).)]
II Astrology texts, to be in aspect with, with dative, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 123; μ. τὴν μοῖραν “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 7.226)]:—passive, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC(?): Nechepso Astrologus cited in 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 279.23.)]
future -ήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.21)]:—passive, future μαρτυρηθήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.13, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.40)]; μαρτυρήσομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus (see.below 9), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.37:)]aorist ἐμαρτυρήθην: perfect μεμαρτύρημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.16)], used in active sense, [LXX (LXX.Gen.43.3)]:—bear witness, give evidence:—Constr.:
1 absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 4.7, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).48; μαρτυροῦντι πιστεύειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.7; ἐξέστω καὶ τοῖς δούλοις μαρτυρεῖν “PLille” 29.20 (3rd c.BC),compare “SIG” 953.19 (Calymna, 2nd c.BC), etc.)]
2 with dative person, bear witness to or in favour of another, confirm what he says, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 594, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.94, etc.)]; μαρτυρέει μοι τῇ γνώμῃ, ὅτι.. bears witness to my opinion, that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.18, compare 4.29; μαρτυρεῖς σαυτῷ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 532)]; especially bear favourable witness to, give a good report of a person, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 22.657 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; πάντες ἐμαρτύρουν αὐτῷ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Eu. Luc.” 4.22. b. with _dative_ _of things_, μ. τῇ διαθήκῃ “POxy.” 494.33 (2nd c.AD), etc.)]
3 with accusative of things, testify to a thing, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 102, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.108, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 515, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 244d; μ. τινί τι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.21, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 797 (Lyric poetry).)]
4 μ. περί τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 21a; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.54.)]
5 with infinitive, testify that a thing is, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 34, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1265, etc.)]; τίς σοι μαρτυρήσει ταῦτ᾽ ἐμοῦ κλύει; that he heard.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tr.” 422, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 977; ὁ κληθεὶς μαρτυρείτω ἀληθῆ μαρτυρεῖν “PHal.” 1.225 (3rd c.BC))]: rarely with participle, μαρτυρεῖτέ [μοι].. ῥινηλατούσῃ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1184; μ. τισὶ παραγινομέναις 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.46.)]
6 μ. τινὶ ὡς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 494, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 523c; σώματα.. ὡς ἔστιν, αὐτὴ ἡ αἴσθησις.. μ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.6U.)]; μ. ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.25.)]
7 μ. τινὶ τῆς συμμαχίας testify to, acknowledge the value of his alliance, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 13.5.3.)]
8 with accusative cognate, μαρτυρίαν μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 11.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 399b)]; μ. ἀκοήν give hearsay evidence, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.4)]; μ. ψεῦδος, ψεύδη, bear false witness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Amipsias Comicus 13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.16; τὰ ψευδῆ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.4; τἀληθῆ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.46)]:—passive, μαρτυρίαι μαρτυρηθεῖσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.1; μεμαρτύρηταί τι περί τινος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.16, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.66.)]
9 impersonal in passive, παρ᾽ ἄλλου ποιητοῦ μαρτυρεῖται testimony is borne by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 344d)]; οἶδα.. μαρτυρήσεσθαί μοι ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.8.10, compare “Ap.” 26)]; μεμαρτύρηται ὑμῖν testimony has been given before you, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.55, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 9.5.)]
10 passive, μαρτυρεῖταί μοι σοφία is ascribed to me, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.26)]; μαρτυροῦμαι ἐμπειρίαν I have it ascribed to me, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.58a, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 10; καλοκἀγαθίαν μαρτυρούμενος 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 15.10.5)]; μαρτυροῦμαι ἐπί τινι I bear a character for.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.25 f)]; ἄνδρας μαρτυρουμένους men whose character is approved by testimony, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Acts.6.3; τεχνίτας.. μαρτυρηθέντας ὑπό τινος “SIG” 799.28 (Cyzicus, 1st c.AD))]; δι᾽ ὅλης οἰκουμένης μαρτυρούμενον θεόν [Refs (“Sammelb.” 1070 (from Abydos).)]
II Astrology texts, to be in aspect with, with dative, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 123; μ. τὴν μοῖραν “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 7.226)]:—passive, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC(?): Nechepso Astrologus cited in 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 279.23.)]