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Witness
Featured studies
5 results- StudyMary Magdalene: the Witness at the Tomb · MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyMu (Μμ): the Greek letterWater, and the letter of “mystery” and “only begotten.”
- StudyAyin (ע): the Hebrew letterThe eye, and the letter Israel's scribes wrote oversized in the nation's daily confession.
- StudyThe Hall of FaithHebrews 11 walks the whole Old Testament as one procession — witness by witness, each name a deed, all of them running toward Jesus.
- StudyMessianic ProphecyThe full catalog as a receipt ledger — the Old Testament text, the New Testament usage, and the witness, side by side, with every count rendered live from the data and every contested reading shown…
Verses
775 results- VerseLuke 24:48You are witnesses of these things.
- VerseExodus 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- VerseDeuteronomy 5:20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- VerseMark 14:56For many bore false witness against Jesus, but their testimony was inconsistent.
- VerseJob 16:19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
People
6 results- PersonAbelThe second son; the first martyr, whose acceptable blood-offering is faith's first witness, and whose blood “speaketh better things” in Christ (Heb 11:4; 12:24).
- PersonMatthiasChosen by lot to replace Judas among the Twelve, on Peter's stated qualification: a man who had been with them the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out, and a witness of…
- PersonMary MagdaleneThe first witness of the risen Christ, who mistook Him for the gardener until He called her name (John 20:11-18).
- PersonJohn the BaptistThe forerunner sent to bear witness to the light; he hailed Jesus as "the Lamb of God" and said "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 1:29; 3:30).
- PersonDemetrius (3 John)"Demetrius hath the witness of all men, and of the truth itself" (3 Jn 12) — likely the letter's carrier.
Places
1 resultManuscripts
3 results- ManuscriptCodex VaticanusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible held at the Vatican Library; the other principal Alexandrian witness alongside Sinaiticus.
- ManuscriptAleppo CodexA 10th-century Hebrew manuscript of the entire Tanakh with full Masoretic apparatus; considered one of the most authoritative witnesses to the Masoretic Text.
- ManuscriptCodex SinaiticusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, one of the two earliest substantially complete witnesses to the Septuagint and New Testament.
Words (Strong's)
23 results- WordH5707 עֵד · ʻêd (Hebrew)concretely, a witness. The Hebrew word stands 70 times in the original text.
- WordG3144 μάρτυς · mártys (Greek)a witness (literally (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case)). The Greek word stands 35 times in the original text.
- WordH5715 עֵדוּת · ʻêdûwth (Hebrew)testimony. The Hebrew word stands 59 times in the original text.
- WordH8085 שָׁמַע · shâmaʻ (Hebrew)to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc. The Hebrew word stands 1,159 times in the original text.
- WordG3141 μαρτυρία · martyría (Greek)evidence given (judicially or genitive case). The Greek word stands 37 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
3 results- ProphecyAccused by False WitnessesFalse witnesses would testify against the Messiah with fabricated charges.
- ProphecyTwo Witnesses in JerusalemTwo prophets will minister in Jerusalem for 3.5 years with supernatural powers.
- Prophecy144,000 Sealed Witnesses12,000 from each tribe of Israel will be sealed for protection and witness during the tribulation.
Apologetics
1 resultVoices
22 results- VoiceIgnatius of AntiochIgnatius was bishop of Antioch in Syria — the city where believers were first called Christians. He called himself Theophorus, "God-bearer." He was condemned to die in the…
- VoicePaschasius of DumiumPaschasius was a monk and deacon of the monastery at Dumium, near Braga in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, in the sixth century. He was born about 515 and died around 580. He…
- VoiceVigilius of ThapsusVigilius was bishop of Thapsus, a coastal town in the African province of Byzacena, in the second half of the fifth century. He was alive and active in 484, and the date of his…
- VoicePolycarp of SmyrnaPolycarp was bishop of Smyrna, a port city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor and one of the seven churches addressed in Revelation. He was born around AD 69 and burned at the…
- VoiceThietland of EinsiedelnThietland was the second abbot of Einsiedeln, the monastery in the forested hills of what is now central Switzerland. He held the office from about 943 until he resigned in…
Apocrypha (study resources)
16 results- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:56Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land.
- Study resourceSusanna 1:49Return again to the place of judgment: for they have borne false witness against her.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 17:11For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.
- Study resourceSusanna 1:61And they arose against the two elders, for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth:
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 4:6For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
Doorways
Study a word
H5707עֵד ʻêd — concretely, a witnessG3144μάρτυς mártys — a witness (literally (judicially) or
figuratively (genitive case))H5715עֵדוּת ʻêdûwth — testimonyH8085שָׁמַע shâmaʻ — to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.G3141μαρτυρία martyría — evidence given (judicially or genitive case)G3142μαρτύριον martýrion — something evidential, i.e.
(genitive case) evidence given or (specially), the Decalogue (in the
sacred Tabernacle)