To testify
μαρτύρομαιStrong’s G3143marturomai
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Marturomai is the Greek word usually translated “testify” and “bearing witness”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.”
Meaning
Usually translated “testify” and “bearing witness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- i testify 3
- bearing witness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
- Galatians 1
- Ephesians 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 26:22Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
- Galatians 5:3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
- Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Greek dictionary
μαρτύρομαι marturomai · to testify
μαρτύρομαι (μάρτυρ), [in LXX: Jdth.7:28, 1Ma.2:56 א)* ;] to summon as witness (M, Th., 25 f.; Hort., 1Pe., 53 f.; Lft., Notes, 29; Ga 203), hence, (a) to protest, affirm solemnly: before ὅτι, Act.20:26, Gal.5:3; (b) to adjure, beseech: with dative of person(s), Act.26:22; with accusative and inf., Eph.4:17; before εἰς, 1Th.2:12 (cf. δια-, προ-μαρτύρομαι).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “testify” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEST'IFY, verb intransitive
[Latin testificor; testis and facio.]
- 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
- 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
- To declare a charge against one.“O Israel, I will testify against thee” Psalms 50:7
- To protest; to declare against.“I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals” Nehemiah 13:15
All definitions and other forms of “testify”
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
- In law, to affirm or declare under oath before tribunal, for the purpose of proving some fact.
- To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony.“To testify the gospel of the grace of God” Acts 20:24
- 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 20:21
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.