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Strong's G3144 μάρτυς (martys)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3144 — yoshah (“Joshah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3144
Language Greek
Linked Usages 82
Books 29

Strong's G3144 Quick Answer

Strong's G3144 μάρτυς (martus) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. martus (mar'-toos) n. 1. a witness 2. (literally) judicially It has 82 linked Bible usages across 29 books. Visible English usage signals include witness, martyr, record, and martyrs. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
martus (mar'-toos) n. 1. a witness 2. (literally) judicially
Usage
82 linked usages
Books
29 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
witness, martyr, record, and martyrs

Meaning and Definition

martus (mar'-toos) n. 1. a witness 2. (literally) judicially 3. (by analogy) a "martyr" {literally or figuratively (genitive case)} [of uncertain affinity] KJV: martyr, record, witness

Original Word
μάρτυς
Transliteration
martus
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3144. 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)

witness

Usage: μάρτυς (Æolic μάρτυρ), -υρος, ὁ (also ἡ), [in LXX for עֵד ;] a witness: Act.10:41, 1Ti.6:12, 2Ti.2:2, Heb.12:1 (Westc., in l); in forensic sense, Mat.18:16 26:65, Mrk.14:63, Act.6:13 7:58, 2Co.13:1, 1Ti.5:19, Heb.10:28; with genitive obj., Luk.24:48, Act.1:22 2:32 3:15 5:32 10:39 26:16, 1Pe.5:1; with genitive poss., Act.1:8 13:31, Rev.11:3; with dative of person(s), Luk.11:48, Act.22:15; of Christ, Rev.1:5 3:14; of God, Rom.1:9, 2Co.1:23, Php.1:8, 1Th.2:5 2:10;

of those who have witnessed for Christ by their death (in later Xn. lit., martyr: Swete, Ap., 35), Act.22:20, Rev.2:13 17:6.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3144 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render martus, 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.

witness Acts 1:22 martyr Acts 22:20 record 2 Corinthians 1:23 martyrs Revelation 17:6

How Strong's G3144 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 45 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.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3144 (μάρτυς) appears 58 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3144 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 G3144 in the New Testament

34 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 18:16 KJV

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matthew 26:65 KJV

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Mark 14:63 KJV

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

Strong's G3144 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

45 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:44 Septuagint / Brenton

Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and thee.

Genesis 31:47 Septuagint / Brenton

And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.

Exodus 23:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.

Strong's G3144 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Solomon 1:6 Septuagint / Brenton

For wisdom is a loving spirit; And will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: For God is witness of his reins, And a true beholder of his heart, And a hearer of his tongue.

Wisdom of Solomon 4:6 Septuagint / Brenton

For children begotten of unlawful beds Are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:10 Septuagint / Brenton

They died for fear, Denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.

Usage Excerpts

First 82 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3144.

Genesis 31:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and thee.
Genesis 31:47 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.
Exodus 23:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.
Leviticus 5:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and he is a witness or has seen or been conscious, if he do not report it, he shall bear his iniquity.
Numbers 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and supposing anyone shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken;
Numbers 23:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken as a witness, thou son of Zippor.
Numbers 35:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Deuteronomy 17:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.
Deuteronomy 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove the evil one from among yourselves.
Deuteronomy 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Deuteronomy 19:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;
Deuteronomy 19:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, if an unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; and has stood up against his brother;
Joshua 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua said to the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves, that ye have chosen the Lord to serve him.
Ruth 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, Ye are this day witnesses, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon, of the hand of Naomi.
Ruth 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover I have bought for myself for a wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; so the name of the dead shall not be destroyed from among his brethren, and from the tribe of his people: ye are this day witnesses.
Ruth 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the people who were in the gate said, We are witnesses: and the elders said, The Lord make thy wife who goes into thy house, as Rachel and as Leah, who both together built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephrathah, and there shall be a name to thee in Bethlehem.
1 Kingdoms 12:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness among you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand: and they said, He is witness.
1 Kingdoms 12:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel spoke to the people, saying, The Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron is witness, who brought our fathers up out of Egypt.
1 Kingdoms 20:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for the word which thou and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is witness between me and thee forever.
1 Kingdoms 20:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, and as we have both sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord shall be witness between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed forever—even so let it be.
3 Kingdoms 17:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, thou hast wrought evil for her in slaying her son.
Job 16:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
Psalms 26:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, And injustice has lied within herself.
Psalms 34:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.
Psalms 88:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as the moon that is established forever, And as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause.
Proverbs 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And brings on quarrels between brethren.
Proverbs 12:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But an unjust witness is deceitful.
Proverbs 12:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.
Proverbs 14:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A faithful witness does not lie; But an unjust witness kindles falsehoods.
Proverbs 14:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: But a deceitful man kindles falsehoods.
Proverbs 19:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A false witness shall not be unpunished, And he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.
Proverbs 19:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.
Proverbs 21:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A false witness shall perish; But an obedient man will speak cautiously.
Proverbs 24:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
fellow citizen, Neither exaggerate with thy lips.
Isaiah 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And make me witnesses of faithful men, Uriah, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Isaiah 43:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.
Isaiah 43:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Be ye my witnesses, and I too am a witness, saith the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know, and believe, and understand that I am he: before me there was no other God, and after me there shall be none.
Isaiah 43:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you: ye are my witnesses, and I am the Lord God,
Isaiah 44:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have ye not heard from the beginning, and have not I told you? ye are witnesses if there is a God beside me.
Jeremiah 36:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and because they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them to speak, and I am witness, saith the Lord.
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 39:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou sayest to me, Buy thee the field for money; and I wrote a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
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.
Jeremiah 49:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said to Jeremiah, Let the Lord be between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord shall send to us.
Malachi 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling’s wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.
Matthew 18:16 New Testament, KJV
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Matthew 26:65 New Testament, KJV
Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
Mark 14:63 New Testament, KJV
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
Luke 24:48 New Testament, KJV
And ye are witnesses of these things.
Acts 1:8 New Testament, KJV
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 1:22 New Testament, KJV
Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Acts 2:32 New Testament, KJV
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 3:15 New Testament, KJV
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 5:32 New Testament, KJV
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Acts 6:13 New Testament, KJV
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 7:58 New Testament, KJV
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
Acts 10:39 New Testament, KJV
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts 10:41 New Testament, KJV
Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts 13:31 New Testament, KJV
And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
Acts 22:15 New Testament, KJV
For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:20 New Testament, KJV
And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Acts 26:16 New Testament, KJV
But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
Romans 1:9 New Testament, KJV
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
2 Corinthians 1:23 New Testament, KJV
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
2 Corinthians 13:1 New Testament, KJV
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Philippians 1:8 New Testament, KJV
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 New Testament, KJV
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
1 Thessalonians 2:10 New Testament, KJV
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 Timothy 5:19 New Testament, KJV
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12 New Testament, KJV
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
2 Timothy 2:2 New Testament, KJV
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Hebrews 10:28 New Testament, KJV
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Hebrews 12:1 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
1 Peter 5:1 New Testament, KJV
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Revelation 1:5 New Testament, KJV
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Revelation 2:13 New Testament, KJV
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Revelation 3:14 New Testament, KJV
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Revelation 11:3 New Testament, KJV
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 17:6 New Testament, KJV
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Wisdom of Solomon 1:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For wisdom is a loving spirit; And will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: For God is witness of his reins, And a true beholder of his heart, And a hearer of his tongue.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For children begotten of unlawful beds Are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They died for fear, Denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3144, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 13 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 2 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 2 usages, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 5 usages, New Testament
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3144 FAQ

What does martys (μάρτυς) mean?

Martys (Strong's G3144) is a Greek word most simply glossed "martyr". martus (mar'-toos) n. 1. a witness 2. (literally) judicially

How many times is martys (μάρτυς) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 82 linked usages for Strong's G3144 across 29 books.

Where can I study martys (μάρτυς) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3144 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate martys (μάρτυς)?

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

Does Strong's G3144 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 45 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3144, with linked reader references where each row is available.