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Strong's H5707 עֵד (ed)

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

Strong's Number H5707
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 59
Books 15

Strong's H5707 Quick Answer

Strong's H5707 עֵד (`ed) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ed (ayd) n-m. 1. concretely, a witness 2. abstractly, testimony It has 59 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include witness and ed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
`ed (ayd) n-m. 1. concretely, a witness 2. abstractly, testimony
Usage
59 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
witness and ed

Meaning and Definition

`ed (ayd) n-m. 1. concretely, a witness 2. abstractly, testimony 3. specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince [contracted from H5749] KJV: witness. Root(s): H5749

Original Word
עֵד
Transliteration
`ed
Derivation
Root: עוד First root strongs: 5749
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5707. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H5707 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ed, 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 Genesis 31:44 40× Ed Joshua 22:34

How Strong's H5707 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old 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 Old Testament with 59 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5707 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 H5707 in the Old Testament

59 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 31:44 KJV

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

Genesis 31:48 KJV

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

Genesis 31:50 KJV

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

Usage Excerpts

First 59 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5707.

Genesis 31:44 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Genesis 31:48 Old Testament, KJV
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Genesis 31:50 Old Testament, KJV
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis 31:52 Old Testament, KJV
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Exodus 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
Exodus 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Leviticus 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Numbers 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
Numbers 35:30 Old Testament, KJV
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Deuteronomy 5:20 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 17:6 Old Testament, KJV
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Deuteronomy 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Deuteronomy 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Deuteronomy 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Deuteronomy 31:26 Old Testament, KJV
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Joshua 22:27 Old Testament, KJV
But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
Joshua 22:28 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
Joshua 22:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Joshua 24:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Ruth 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
Ruth 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Ruth 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
1 Samuel 12:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
Job 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:19 Old Testament, KJV
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
Psalms 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 35:11 Old Testament, KJV
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalms 89:37 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Proverbs 6:19 Old Testament, KJV
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 12:17 Old Testament, KJV
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Proverbs 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs 14:25 Old Testament, KJV
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Proverbs 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 19:9 Old Testament, KJV
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Proverbs 19:28 Old Testament, KJV
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Proverbs 21:28 Old Testament, KJV
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Proverbs 24:28 Old Testament, KJV
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Proverbs 25:18 Old Testament, KJV
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Isaiah 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Isaiah 19:20 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Isaiah 43:9 Old Testament, KJV
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Isaiah 43:10 Old Testament, KJV
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah 43:12 Old Testament, KJV
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Isaiah 44:8 Old Testament, KJV
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isaiah 44:9 Old Testament, KJV
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 55:4 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
Jeremiah 29:23 Old Testament, KJV
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:10 Old Testament, KJV
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jeremiah 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah 32:25 Old Testament, KJV
And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 32:44 Old Testament, KJV
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 42:5 Old Testament, KJV
Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
Micah 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
Malachi 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5707, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 9 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 4 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 10 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H5707 FAQ

What does ed (עֵד) mean?

Ed (Strong's H5707) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "witness". `ed (ayd) n-m. 1. concretely, a witness 2. abstractly, testimony

How many times is ed (עֵד) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 59 linked usages for Strong's H5707 across 15 books.

Where can I study ed (עֵד) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5707 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate ed (עֵד)?

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