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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Testify

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

29exact KJV occurrences 14Old Testament 15New Testament 17books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 29occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Numbers 35:30

Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 22:18

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where testify appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG3140
μαρτυρέω

martyréō · mar-too-reh'-o

8 times translated as this KJV form89 total Strong's occurrences

to be a witness, i.e. testify (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: :--charge, give (evidence), bear record, have (obtain, of) good (honest) report, be well reported of, testify, give (have) testimony, (be, bear, give, obtain) witness.

Strong's first: John 2:25Strong's last: Revelation 22:16

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HebrewH6030
עָנָה

ʻânâh · aw-naw'

8 times translated as this KJV form329 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce

Strong's KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, × scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.

Strong's first: Numbers 35:30Strong's last: Micah 6:3

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HebrewH5749
עוּד

ʻûwd · ood

6 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences

v

to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)

Strong's KJV usage: admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 8:19Strong's last: Amos 3:13

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GreekG3143
μαρτύρομαι

martýromai · mar-too'-rom-ahee

2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

to be adduced as a witness, i.e. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation)

Strong's KJV usage: :--take to record, testify.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Galatians 5:3Strong's last: Ephesians 4:17

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Clear
Luke 16:28
G1263

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

testify

TEST'IFY, verb intransitive [Latin testificor; testis and facio.]

1. To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.

Jesus needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John 2:25.

2. In judicial proceedings, to make a solemn declaration under oath, for the purpose of establishing or making proof of some act to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.

One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Numbers 35:30.

3. To declare a charge against one.

O Israel, I will testify against thee. Psalms 1:1.

4. To protest; to declare against.

I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Nehemiah 13:1.

TEST'IFY, verb transitive To affirm or declare solemnly for the purpose of establishing a fact.

We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. John 3:11.

1. In law, to affirm or declare under oath before tribunal, for the purpose of proving some fact.

2. To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony.

To testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24.

3. To publish and declare freely.

Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:24.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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