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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Witnesses
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Revelation 11:3
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
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9 occurrences in 9 verses.
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Numbers
11 verses
Deuteronomy
53 verses
Joshua
21 verses
Ruth
33 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Isaiah
66 verses
Jeremiah
44 verses
Matthew
54 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
99 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
1 Thessalonians
11 verses
1 Timothy
22 verses
2 Timothy
11 verses
Hebrews
22 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עֵד
ʻêd · ayd
24 times translated as this KJV form69 total Strong's occurrences
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
Strong's KJV usage: witness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 35:30Strong's last: Jeremiah 32:44
Open full H5707 profile →μάρτυς
mártys · mar'-toos
21 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
a witness (literally (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case)); by analogy, a "martyr"
Strong's KJV usage: :-- martyr, record, witness.
Strong's first: Matthew 18:16Strong's last: Revelation 11:3
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pseudomártyr · psyoo-dom-ar'-toor
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a spurious witness, i.e. bearer of untrue testimony
Strong's KJV usage: :--false witness.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:60Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 15:15
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martyréō · mar-too-reh'-o
1 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: Matthew 23:31Strong's last: Matthew 23:31
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H5707
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
H5707
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
H5707
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
H5707
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
H5707
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
H5707
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
English meaning and historical usage.
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witness
WITNESS, noun
1. Testimony; attestation of a fact or event.
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. John 5:31.
2. That which furnishes evidence or proof.
Laban said, this heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Genesis 31:44.
3. A person who knows or sees any thing; one personally present; as, he was witness; he was an eye-witness. 1 Peter 5:1.
4. One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity b his testimony.
5. One who gives testimony; as, the witnesses in court agreed in all essential facts.
With a witness effectually; to a great degree; with great force, so as to leave some mark as a testimony behind. He struck with a witness [Not elegant.]
WITNESS, verb transitive
1. To see or know by personal presence. I witnessed the ceremonies in New York, with which the ratification of the constitution was celebrated, in 1788.
2. To attest; to give testimony to; to testify to something.
Behold, how many things they witness against thee. Mark 15:4.
3. To see the execution of an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed.
WITNESS, verb intransitive
1. To bear testimony.
The men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth. 1 Kings 21:10.
2. To give evidence.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them. Isaiah 3:9.
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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