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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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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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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 2:25Strong's last: Revelation 22:16
Open full G3140 profile →עָנָה
ʻânâh · aw-naw'
8 times translated as this KJV form329 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 35:30Strong's last: Micah 6:3
Open full H6030 profile →עוּד
ʻûwd · ood
6 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 8:19Strong's last: Amos 3:13
Open full H5749 profile →διαμαρτύρομαι
diamartýromai · dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ahee
4 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to attest or protest earnestly, or (by implication) hortatively
Strong's KJV usage: :--charge, testify (unto), witness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 16:28Strong's last: Acts 20:24
Open full G1263 profile →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.
Strong's first: Galatians 5:3Strong's last: Ephesians 4:17
Open full G3143 profile →συμμαρτυρέω
symmartyréō · soom-mar-too-reh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to testify jointly, i.e. corroborate by (concurrent) evidence
Strong's KJV usage: :--testify unto, (also) bear witness (with).
Strong's first: Revelation 22:18Strong's last: Revelation 22:18
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H6030
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.
H5749
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
H6030
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
H6030
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
H5749
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
H5749
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
H6030
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
H5749
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
H5749
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
H6030
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
H6030
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
H6030
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
H5749
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
H6030
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
G1263
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
G3140
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
G3140
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
G3140
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
G3140
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
G3140
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
G1263
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
G1263
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
G1263
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
G3140
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
G3143
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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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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