(whence Eng., “martyr,” one who bears “witness” by his death) denotes “one who can or does aver what he has seen or heard or knows;” it is used (a) of God, Rom 1:9<\/span>; 2Co 1:23<\/span>; Phi 1:8<\/span>; 1Th 2:5<\/span>,1Th 2:10<\/span> (2nd part); (b) of Christ, Rev 1:5<\/span>; Rev 3:14<\/span>; (c) of those who “witness” for Christ by their death, Act 22:20<\/span>; Rev 2:13<\/span>; Rev 17:6<\/span>; (d) of the interpreters of God’s counsels, yet to “witness” in Jerusalem in the times of the Antichrist, Rev 11:3<\/span>; (e) in a forensic sense, Mat 18:16<\/span>; Mat 26:65<\/span>; Mar 14:63<\/span>; Act 6:13<\/span>; Act 7:58<\/span>; 2Co 13:1<\/span>; 1Ti 5:19<\/span>; Heb 10:28<\/span>; (f) in a historical sense, Luk 11:48<\/span>; Luk 24:48<\/span>; Act 1:8<\/span>,Act 1:22<\/span>; Act 2:32<\/span>; Act 3:15<\/span>; Act 5:32<\/span>; Act 10:39<\/span>,Act 10:41<\/span>; Act 13:31<\/span>; Act 22:15<\/span>; Act 26:16<\/span>; 1Th 2:10<\/span> (1st part); 1Ti 6:12<\/span>; 2Ti 2:2<\/span>; Heb 12:1<\/span>, “(a cloud) of witnesses,” here of those mentioned in ch. 11, those whose lives and actions testified to the worth and effect of faith, and whose faith received “witness” in Scripture; 1Pe 5:1<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “testimony, a bearing witness,” is translated “witness” in Mar 14:55-56<\/span>,Mar 14:59<\/span>; Luk 22:71<\/span>; Joh 1:7<\/span>,Joh 1:19<\/span> (RV); Joh 3:11<\/span>,Joh 3:32-33<\/span> (RV); Joh 5:31-32<\/span>,Joh 5:34<\/span> (RV), Joh 5:36<\/span>; RV in Joh 8:13-14<\/span>,Joh 8:17<\/span>; Joh 19:35<\/span>; Joh 21:24<\/span>; AV in Tit 1:13<\/span>; AV and RV in 1Jo 5:9<\/span> (thrice), 10 (1st part); RV in 1Jo 5:10<\/span> (2nd part), 1Jo 5:11<\/span>; 3Jo 1:12<\/span>, see TESTIMONY, No. 2. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “testimony or witness as borne, a declaration of facts,” is translated “witness” in Mat 24:14<\/span>, AV; Act 4:33<\/span>; Act 7:44<\/span> (AV); Jam 5:3<\/span> (AV): see TESTIMONY, No. 1. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “a false witness,” Mat 26:60<\/span>; 1Co 15:15<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “false witness,” occurs in Mat 15:19<\/span>; Mat 26:59<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes (I) “to be a martus” (see A, No. 1), or “to bear witness to,” sometimes rendered “to testify” (see TESTIFY, No. 1); it is used of the “witness” (a) of God the Father to Christ, Joh 5:32<\/span>,Joh 5:37<\/span>; Joh 8:18<\/span> (2nd part); 1Jo 5:9-10<\/span>; to others, Act 13:22<\/span>; Act 15:8<\/span>; Heb 11:2<\/span>,Heb 11:4<\/span> (twice), Heb 11:5<\/span>,Heb 11:39<\/span>; (b) of Christ, Joh 3:11<\/span>,Joh 3:32<\/span>; Joh 4:44<\/span>; Joh 5:31<\/span>; Joh 7:7<\/span>; Joh 8:13-14<\/span>,Joh 8:18<\/span> (1st part); Joh 13:21<\/span>; Joh 18:37<\/span>; Act 14:3<\/span>; 1Ti 6:13<\/span>; Rev 22:18<\/span>,Rev 22:20<\/span>; of the Holy Spirit, to Christ, Joh 15:26<\/span>; Heb 10:15<\/span>; 1Jo 5:7-8<\/span>, RV, which rightly omits the latter part of 1Jo 5:7<\/span> (it was a marginal gloss which crept into the original text: see THREE); it finds no support in Scripture; (c) of the Scriptures, to Christ, Joh 5:39<\/span>; Heb 7:8<\/span>,Heb 7:17<\/span>; (d) of the works of Christ, to Himself, and of the circumstances connected with His Death, Joh 5:36<\/span>; Joh 10:25<\/span>; 1Jo 5:8<\/span>; (e) of prophets and apostles, to the righteousness of God, Rom 3:21<\/span>; to Christ, Joh 1:7-8<\/span>,Joh 1:15<\/span>,Joh 1:32<\/span>,Joh 1:34<\/span>; Joh 3:26<\/span>; Joh 5:33<\/span>, RV; Joh 15:27<\/span>; Joh 19:35<\/span>; Joh 21:24<\/span>; Act 10:43<\/span>; Act 23:11<\/span>; 1Co 15:15<\/span>; 1Jo 1:2<\/span>; 1Jo 4:14<\/span>; Rev 1:2<\/span>; to doctrine, Act 26:22<\/span> (in some texts, so AV; see No. 2); to the Word of God, Rev 1:2<\/span>; (f) of others, concerning Christ, Luk 4:22<\/span>; Joh 4:39<\/span>; Joh 12:17<\/span>; (g) of believers to one another, Joh 3:28<\/span>; 2Co 8:3<\/span>; Gal 4:15<\/span>; Col 4:13<\/span>; 1Th 2:11<\/span> (in some texts: see No. 2); 3Jo 1:3<\/span>,3Jo 1:6<\/span>,3Jo 1:12<\/span> (2nd part); (h) of the Apostle Paul concerning Israel, Rom 10:2<\/span>; (i) of an angel, to the churches, Rev 22:16<\/span>; (j) of unbelievers concerning themselves, Mat 23:31<\/span>; concerning Christ, Joh 18:23<\/span>; concerning others, Joh 2:25<\/span>; Act 22:5<\/span>; Act 26:5<\/span>; (II) “to give a good report, to approve of,” Act 6:3<\/span>; Act 10:22<\/span>; Act 16:2<\/span>; Act 22:12<\/span>; 1Ti 5:10<\/span>; 3Jo 1:12<\/span> (1st part); some would put Luk 4:22<\/span> here. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n strictly meaning “to summon as a witness,” signifies “to affirm solemnly, adjure,” and is used in the Middle Voice only, rendered “to testify” in Act 20:26<\/span>, RV (AV, “I take … to record”); Act 26:22<\/span>, RV, in the best texts [see No. 1 (e)]; Gal 5:3<\/span>; Eph 4:17<\/span>; 1Th 2:11<\/span>, in the best texts [see No. 1 (g)]. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “to bear witness with” (sun), Rom 2:15<\/span>; Rom 8:16<\/span>; Rom 9:1<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “to join in bearing witness with others,” Heb 2:4<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “to witness against” (kata), Mat 26:62<\/span>; Mat 27:13<\/span>; Mar 14:60<\/span> (in some mss., Mar 15:4<\/span>, for kategoreo, “to accuse,” RV). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to bear false witness” (pseudes, “false”), occurs in Mat 19:18<\/span>; Mar 10:19<\/span>; Mar 14:56-57<\/span>; Luk 18:20<\/span>; in some texts, Rom 13:9<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “without witness” (a, negative, and martus), Act 14:17<\/span>. <\/p>\n Witness (Noun and Verb) (whence Eng., “martyr,” one who bears “witness” by his death) denotes “one who can or does aver what he has seen or heard or knows;” it is used (a) of God, Rom 1:9; 2Co 1:23; Phi 1:8; 1Th 2:5,1Th 2:10 (2nd part); (b) of Christ, Rev 1:5; Rev 3:14; (c) of … Continue reading “Witness (Noun and Verb)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"