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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Testify
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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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G3143
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
G3140
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
G3140
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
G4828
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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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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