Lexicon :: Strong's G3144 - martys

“Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”

Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.[fn]

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he will bear his iniquity.

“and sleeps with another,[fn] but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

Balaam proclaimed his poem:

Balak, get up and listen;

son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.

“The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness.

“One witness cannot establish any iniquity or sin against a person, whatever that person has done. A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

“The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

Joshua then told the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen to worship the LORD.”

“We are witnesses,” they said.

Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

He said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything in my hand.”

“He is a witness,” they said.

“As for the matter you and I have spoken about, the LORD will be a witness[fn] between you and me forever.”

Jonathan then said to David, “Go in the assurance the two of us pledged in the name of the LORD when we said, ‘The LORD will be a witness between you and me and between my offspring and your offspring forever.’ ” Then David left, and Jonathan went into the city.

Then he cried out to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son? ”

Even now my witness is in heaven,

and my advocate is in the heights!

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,

for false witnesses rise up against me,

breathing violence.

Malicious witnesses come forward;

they question me about things I do not know.

“like the moon, established forever,

a faithful witness in the sky.”Selah

a lying witness who gives false testimony,

and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right,

but a false witness speaks deceit.

Truthful lips endure forever,

but a lying tongue, only a moment.

An honest witness does not deceive,

but a dishonest witness utters lies.

A truthful witness rescues lives,

but one who utters lies is deceitful.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies will not escape.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies perishes.

A lying witness will perish,

but the one who listens will speak successfully.

Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.

Don’t deceive with your lips.

“I have appointed[fn] trustworthy witnesses ​— ​the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.”

All the nations are gathered together,

and the peoples are assembled.

Who among them can declare this,

and tell us the former things?

Let them present their witnesses

to vindicate themselves,

so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”

“I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed —

and not some foreign god[fn] among you.

So you are my witnesses” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“and[fn] I am God.

Do not be startled or afraid.

Have I not told you and declared it long ago?

You are my witnesses!

Is there any God but me?

There is no other Rock; I do not know any.

“because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

“I recorded it on a scroll, sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

“Yet you, Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Purchase the field and call in witnesses’ ​— ​even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans! ”

“Fields will be purchased, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed, and witnesses will be called on in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in Judah’s cities ​— ​the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, and the cities of the Negev ​— ​because I will restore their fortunes.”[fn]

This is the LORD’s declaration.

And they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we don’t act according to every word the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.