Martyromai means “take to record” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3143 — yoshibyah (“Josibiah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3143 μαρτύρομαι (marturomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. marturomai (mar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to be adduced as a witness 2. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation) It has 4 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include testify and take. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
marturomai (mar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to be adduced as a witness 2. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation) [middle voice from G3144] KJV: take to record, testify Root(s): G3144
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3143. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to testify
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render marturomai, 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.
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Strong's G3143 (μαρτύρομαι) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3143.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3143, grouped by book.
Martyromai (Strong's G3143) is a Greek word most simply glossed "take to record". marturomai (mar-too'-rom-ai) v. 1. to be adduced as a witness 2. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation)
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G3143 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3143 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as testify and take. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3143, with linked reader references where each row is available.