Greek verb · G3143
μαρτύρομαι
martyromaimar-too'-rom-ahee
to testify
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: martýromai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3143is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3143
to be adduced as a witness, i.e. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation)
The King James renders it: take to record, testify.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
martyromai is rendered "to testify". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 20:26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
Acts 20:26μαρτύρομαι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I testify3
- bearing witness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μαρτύρομαι3
- μαρτυρόμενος1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singular3V-PNI-1S
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PNP-NSM
Acts
two uses
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
- μαρτύρομαιmarturomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I testify
But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
- μαρτυρόμενοςmarturomenosverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: bearing witness
Galatians
one use
Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
- μαρτύρομαιmarturomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I testify
Ephesians
one use
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- μαρτύρομαιmarturomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I testify
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.