Strong's G3140 μαρτυρέω (martyreo)

And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee today.

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and thee; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

Whoever kills a man, thou shalt slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.

One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, if an unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; and has stood up against his brother;

And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.

And now ye talk of keeping the children of Judah and Jerusalem for servants and handmaids. Lo, am I not with you to testify for the Lord your God?

What shall I testify to thee, Or what shall I compare to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who shall save and comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For the cup of thy destruction is enlarged: Who shall heal thee?

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.

When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.

Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.

As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,

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.

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Having 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:

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:

Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

but said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth shall testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.

Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land.