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Strong's G1263 διαμαρτύρομαι (diamartyromai)

Diamartyromai means “charge” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1263 — baruk (“Baruch”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1263
Language Greek
Linked Usages 44
Books 18

Strong's G1263 Quick Answer

Strong's G1263 διαμαρτύρομαι (diamarturomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. diamarturomai (dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to attest or protest earnestly 2. (by implication) hortatively It has 44 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include testify, charge, testifying, and witness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Meaning
diamarturomai (dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to attest or protest earnestly 2. (by implication) hortatively
Usage
44 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Usage Words
testify, charge, testifying, and witness

Meaning and Definition

diamarturomai (dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to attest or protest earnestly 2. (by implication) hortatively [from G1223 and G3140] KJV: charge, testify (unto), witness Root(s): G1223, G3140

Original Word
διαμαρτύρομαι
Transliteration
diamarturomai
Derivation
Root: μαρτυρέω R1: 1223 R2: 3140
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1263. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to testify solemnly

Usage: δια-μαρτύρομαι, depon., of Ionic origin, intensive of the simple μαρτύρομαι, which see, [in LXX chiefly for עוּד hi., usually with dative of person(s), Deu.4:26 8:19, 1Ki.8:9, al. ;] solemnly to protest: Luk.16:28, Act.2:40 8:25 10:42 18:5 20:21, 23, 24 23:11 28:23, 1Th.4:6, Heb.2:6; in adjuration, before ἐνώπιον τ. θεοῦ, 1Ti.5:21, 2Ti.2:14 4:1 (Cremer, 415).† (AS)

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How Strong's G1263 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render diamarturomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

testify Luke 16:28 charge 1 Timothy 5:21 Testifying Acts 20:21 witness Acts 23:11

How Strong's G1263 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 29 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1263 (διαμαρτύρομαι) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1263 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1263 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 16:28 KJV

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Acts 2:40 KJV

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

Acts 8:25 KJV

And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

Strong's G1263 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

29 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 18:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt show to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do.

Exodus 19:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and solemnly charge the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments.

Exodus 19:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And God spoke to Moses, saying, Go down, and solemnly charge the people, lest at any time they draw nigh to God to gaze, and a multitude of them fall.

Usage Excerpts

First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1263.

Exodus 18:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt show to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do.
Exodus 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and solemnly charge the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments.
Exodus 19:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God spoke to Moses, saying, Go down, and solemnly charge the people, lest at any time they draw nigh to God to gaze, and a multitude of them fall.
Exodus 19:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to God, The people will not be able to approach to the mount of Sinai, for thou hast solemnly charged us, saying, Set bounds to the mountain and sanctify it.
Exodus 21:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
Exodus 21:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
Numbers 15:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses;
Deuteronomy 4:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.
Deuteronomy 8:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and shouldest go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;
Deuteronomy 31:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.
Deuteronomy 32:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.
1 Kingdoms 8:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now hearken to their voice; only thou shalt solemnly testify to them, and thou shalt describe to them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
1 Kingdoms 21:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to the priest, The king gave me a command today, and said to me, Let no one know the matter on which I send thee, and concerning which I have charged thee: and I have charged my servants to be in the place that is called, The faithfulness of God, phellani maemoni.
4 Kingdoms 17:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, even by the hand of all his prophets, and of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, and all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.
4 Kingdoms 17:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they kept not any of his testimonies which he charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.
2 Chronicles 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet he sent prophets to them, to turn them to the Lord; but they hearkened not: and he testified to them, but they obeyed not.
Nehemiah 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Nehemiah 9:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
Nehemiah 13:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
Psalms 49:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: And I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
Psalms 80:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; And I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;
Jeremiah 6:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may hearken? behold, thine ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all desire it.
Jeremiah 39:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I wrote it in a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.
Jeremiah 39:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall buy fields for money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.
Ezekiel 16:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;
Ezekiel 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers:
Zechariah 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord testified to Joshua, saying,
Malachi 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.
Luke 16:28 New Testament, KJV
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Acts 2:40 New Testament, KJV
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Acts 8:25 New Testament, KJV
And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
Acts 10:42 New Testament, KJV
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Acts 18:5 New Testament, KJV
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
Acts 20:21 New Testament, KJV
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 20:23 New Testament, KJV
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Acts 20:24 New Testament, KJV
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 23:11 New Testament, KJV
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
Acts 28:23 New Testament, KJV
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 New Testament, KJV
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
1 Timothy 5:21 New Testament, KJV
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
2 Timothy 2:14 New Testament, KJV
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Timothy 4:1 New Testament, KJV
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Hebrews 2:6 New Testament, KJV
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1263, grouped by book.

Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 9 usages, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament

Strong's G1263 FAQ

What does diamartyromai (διαμαρτύρομαι) mean?

Diamartyromai (Strong's G1263) is a Greek word most simply glossed "charge". diamarturomai (dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to attest or protest earnestly 2. (by implication) hortatively

How many times is diamartyromai (διαμαρτύρομαι) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's G1263 across 18 books.

Where can I study diamartyromai (διαμαρτύρομαι) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1263 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

What English words translate diamartyromai (διαμαρτύρομαι)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as testify, charge, testifying, and witness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1263 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 29 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1263, with linked reader references where each row is available.