Strong's #3140: martureo (pronounced mar-too-reh'-o)
from 3144; to be a witness, i.e. testify (literally or figuratively):--charge, give (evidence), bear record, have (obtain, of) good (honest) report, be well reported of, testify, give (have) testimony, (be, bear, give, obtain) witness.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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martureō
1) to be a witness, to bear witness, i.e. to affirm that one has seen or heard or experienced something, or that he knows it because taught by divine revelation or inspiration
1a) to give (not to keep back) testimony
1b) to utter honourable testimony, give a good report
1c) conjure, implore
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G3144
Citing in TDNT: 4:474, 564
Usage:
This word is used 79 times:
Matthew 23:31: "Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the"
Luke 4:22: "And all bare him witness, and wondered at the"
Luke 11:48: "Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:"
John 1:7: "for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that"
John 1:8: "that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light."
John 1:15: "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This"
John 1:32: "And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending"
John 1:34: "And I saw, and bare record that this is the"
John 2:25: "needed not that any should testify of man: for"
John 3:11: "that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive"
John 3:26: "Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and"
John 3:28: "Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am"
John 3:32: "and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his"
John 4:39: "saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever"
John 4:44: "For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no"
John 5:31: "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is"
John 5:32: "There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that"
John 5:32: "the witness which he witnesseth of me is true."
John 5:33: "unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth."
John 5:36: "that I do, bear witness of me, that the"
John 5:37: "himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard"
John 5:39: "and they are they which testify of me."
John 7:7: "me it hateth, because I testify of it, that"
John 8:13: "said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record"
John 8:14: "unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record"
John 8:18: "I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father"
John 8:18: "that sent me beareth witness of me."
John 10:25: "Father's name, they bear witness of me."
John 12:17: "him from the dead, bare record."
John 13:21: "he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily,"
John 15:26: "from the Father, he"
John 15:26: "from the Father, he shall testify"
John 15:27: "And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me"
John 18:23: "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but"
John 18:37: "the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is"
John 19:35: "And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true:"
John 21:24: "is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote"
Acts 6:3: "you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and"
Acts 10:22: "one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation"
Acts 10:43: "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name"
Acts 13:22: "to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David"
Acts 14:3: "the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace,"
Acts 15:8: "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the"
Acts 16:2: "Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and"
Acts 22:5: "also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the"
Acts 22:12: "according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews"
Acts 23:11: "so must thou bear witness also at Rome."
Acts 26:5: "from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest"
Acts 26:22: "unto this day, witnessing both to small and great,"
Romans 3:21: "without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and"
