martys · witness

What it means

martys (μάρτυς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “witness”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who tells what they saw or heard.
2. Someone who bears witness to Jesus even to the point of dying for it.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• witnesses ×23
• witness ×12

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×13
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Philippians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• 1 Timothy×2
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×5

• Matthew 18:16

  But if he does not listen, take with you one or two more, so that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

• Matthew 26:65

  Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, “He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy.

• Mark 14:63

  And the high priest, tearing his garments, says, “What further need do we have of witnesses?

• Luke 11:48

  So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they on the one hand killed them, and you build their tombs.

• Luke 24:48

  You are witnesses of these things.

• Acts 1:8

  but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

• Acts 1:22

  beginning from the immersion of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, that one of these become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

• Acts 2:32

  This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

• Acts 3:15

  and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

• Acts 5:32

  And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

• Acts 6:13

  and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law;

• Acts 7:58

  And throwing him out of the city, they were stoning him. And the witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man called Saul.

• Acts 10:39

  And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; him they even killed by hanging him on a wooden beam.

• Acts 10:41

  not to all the people but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

• Acts 13:31

  who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

• Acts 22:15

  for you will be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

• Acts 22:20

  And when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I also was standing by and approving and guarding the garments of those who were killing him.’

• Acts 26:16

  But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things in which you have seen me and of those in which I will appear to you,

• Romans 1:9

  For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you,

• 2 Corinthians 1:23

  But I call God as witness on my life that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

• 2 Corinthians 13:1

  This is the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two witnesses and of three every word will be established.”

• Philippians 1:8

  For God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of the Messiah Jesus.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:5

  For neither did we ever come with a word of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed (God is witness),

• 1 Thessalonians 2:10

  You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved toward you who believe,

• 1 Timothy 5:19

  Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.

• 1 Timothy 6:12

  Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and for which you made the good confession before many witnesses.

• 2 Timothy 2:2

  and what you heard from me through many witnesses, entrust these things to faithful people who will be able to teach others also.

• Hebrews 10:28

  Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without compassion on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

• Hebrews 12:1

  Therefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

• 1 Peter 5:1

  So I exhort the elders among you, I the fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Messiah, and sharer in the glory that is about to be revealed:

• Revelation 1:5

  and from Jesus the Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

• Revelation 2:13

  I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. And you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

• Revelation 3:14

  And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: This is what the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, says:

• Revelation 11:3

  And I will grant to my two witnesses that they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

• Revelation 17:6

  And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was amazed with great amazement.