διαμαρτύρομαι
diamartýromai · G1263 · Greek · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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to declare, to assert, to testify
To make a serious declaration on the basis of presumed personal knowledge
ExamplesActs 8:25 So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
Acts 10:42 “And He ordered us to preach to the people, and to testify solemnly that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 18:5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
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to insist
To be emphatic in stating an opinion or desire
ExamplesActs 2:40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on urging them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”
1 Timothy 5:21 I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.
2 Timothy 4:1 I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:
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to warn
To admonish or instruct with regard to some future happening or action, with the implication of personal knowledge or experience
ExamplesLuke 16:28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not come to this place of torment as well.’
Acts 20:23 except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and afflictions await me.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 and that no one violate the rights and take advantage of his brother or sister in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you previously and solemnly warned you.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
15 occurrences in 8 groups
- Not stated (participle) 5
- Not stated: I 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- πνεῦμαspirit 1
- τὶςsomeone 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
10 occurrences in 11 groups
- Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
To or for whomIndirect object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 2
- ἐγώI, we 1
- ἝλληνGreek, Gentile 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἐνώπιονin front of+ θεόςGod 2
- εἰςto+ ἹερουσαλήμJerusalem 1
- ἐνώπιονin front of+ ἄγγελοςangel, messenger 1
- ἐνώπιονin front of+ ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
- κατάaccording to, against, down+ πόλιςcity 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πούsomewhere 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παραγγέλλωto order, to command 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- עוּד ʻûwd · H5749 · to warn, to admonish, to assure
- Hebrew עוּד (ʻûwd, H5749) עוּד denotes solemn witness-bearing, testimony, and earnest admonition across legal and covenantal contexts; Greek διαμαρτύρομαι (diamartýromai, G1263) διαμαρτύρομαι emphasizes the earnest, emphatic quality of attesting or protesting (often with hortatory force), rendering the same semantic core of solemn, emphatic witness or charge.
- זָהַר zâhar · H2094 · to shine, to be bright, to be brilliant
- διαμαρτύρομαι (diamartýromai, G1263) emphasizes solemn attestation or earnest protest (often before witnesses or with juridical/prophetic weight), while זָהַר (zâhar, H2094) focuses on warning or admonishing (often with a pedagogical or cautionary nuance, literally 'to shine/illuminate' as in making danger clear).
Semantic domains 3 entries
- To declare, to assert, to testify33.223
- Used of solemn, weighty testimony, as of Peter solemnly testifying and urging the crowd at Pentecost to be saved in Acts 2:40, and Philip and the apostles solemnly testifying and speaking the word of the Lord on the way back to Jerusalem in Acts 8:25.
- To insist33.319
- Used of pressing a point with emphatic conviction, as of Paul devoting himself completely to testifying insistently to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ in Acts 18:5.
- To warn33.425
- Used of urgently cautioning someone about consequences, as of the rich man's request that Lazarus be sent to warn his five brothers so they will not come to the place of torment in Luke 16:28.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon deponent middle; imperfect διεμαρτυρομην (Acts 2:40 Rec.); 1 aorist διεμαρτυράμην; in the…
1. to testify, i. e. earnestly, religiously to charge: followed by an imperative Acts 2:40; ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ καί Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, 2 Tim 4:1 (2 Kgs 17:13; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 1, 17 σύ μή πρότερον ἐμβαλλε τοῖς πολεμίοις, διαμαρτύρομαι, πρίν, etc.); also with ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ κτλ. followed by ἵνα (cf. Buttmann, 237 (204)), 1 Tim 5:21 (followed by μή, Ex 19:21); followed by the infinitive 2 Tim 2:14 (not Lachmann) (Neh 9:26).
2. to attest, testify to, solemnly affirm: Acts 20:23; 1 Thess 4:6; Heb 2:6; followed by ὅτι, Acts 10:42; with the dative of person to give solemn testimony to one, Lk 16:28; with the accusative of the object to confirm a thing by (the interposition of) testimony, to testify, cause it to be believed: τόν λόγον τοῦ κυρίου, Acts 8:25; τόν εὐαγγέλιον, Acts 20:24; τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, Acts 28:23; for all the apostolic instruction came back finally to testimony respecting things which they themselves had seen or heard, or which had been disclosed to them by divine revelation (Acts 1:21; Acts 5:32; Acts 10:41; Acts 22:18); with the addition of εἰς and an accusative of the place unto which the testimony is borne: τά περί ἐμοῦ εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ, Acts 23:11; with the addition of a dative of the person to whom the testimony is given: τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις τόν Χριστόν Ἰησοῦν, the Messianic dignity of Jesus, Acts 18:5; Ἰουδαίοις... τήν... μετάνοιαν καί πίστιν, the necessity of repentance and faith, Acts 20:21 (τῇ Ἱερουσαλήμ τάς ἀνομίας, into what sins she has fallen, Ezek 16:2).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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