Quick Definition
witness
Strong's Definition
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
Derivation: contracted from H5749 (עוּד);
KJV Usage: witness.
TWOT Reference: 1576b
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עֵד (ed) — witness. 1) witness 1a) witness, testimony, evidence (of things) 1b) witness (of people)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · גַּלְעֵד · עוד
Witnesses | ≈ שָׂהֵד
witness = a person or deity who has evidence that something has taken place or that some decision has been made
GEN 31:50 · LEV 5:1 · NUM 5:13 · NUM 35:30 · NUM 35:30 · DEU 17:6 · DEU 17:6 · DEU 17:6 · DEU 17:7 · DEU 19:15 · DEU 19:15 · DEU 19:15 · DEU 19:16 · DEU 19:18 · DEU 19:18 · 1SA 12:5 · 1SA 12:5 · 1SA 12:5 · JOB 16:19 · PRO 6:19 · PRO 12:17 · PRO 14:5 · PRO 14:5 · PRO 14:25 · PRO 19:5 · PRO 19:9 · PRO 19:28 · PRO 21:28 · PRO 24:28 · PRO 25:18 · JER 29:23 · JER 42:5 · MIC 1:2 · ZEP 3:8 · MAL 3:5
Objects
evidence, proof = an object that functions as evidence or proof that something has taken place or that some decision has been made
GEN 31:52 · EXO 22:12 · DEU 31:26 · JOS 22:27 · JOS 22:28 · JOS 22:34 · PSA 89:38 · ISA 19:20
Events
evidence, proof = an event that functions as evidence or proof that something has taken place or that some decision has been made
Speak
testimony = action by which humans provide evidence or proof that something has taken place or that some decision has been made
EXO 20:16 · EXO 23:1 · DEU 5:20 · JOS 24:22 · JOS 24:22 · RUT 4:9 · RUT 4:10 · RUT 4:11 · JOB 10:17 · PSA 27:12 · PSA 35:11 · ISA 8:2 · ISA 43:9 · ISA 43:10 · ISA 43:12 · ISA 44:8 · ISA 44:9 · ISA 55:4 · JER 32:10 · JER 32:12 · JER 32:25 · JER 32:44
1 JOB 10:17 DCH "petulance" = עֻדִּי NJB "attacking me" REB "your onslaught"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עֵד 69 n.m. witness (prob. fr. reiterating, hence emphatically affirming) witness, testimony, evidence, of things
witness, a person
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