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ἐπιμαρτυρέω

epimartyréō · G1957 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to witness

    To provide information about a person or an event concerning which the speaker has direct knowledge

    Examples

    1 Peter 5:12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother (for so I regard him), I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To witness33.262
Peter closes his letter in 1 Peter 5:12 by “testifying that this is the true grace of God,” ἐπιμαρτυρέω marking his formal, added witness confirming the truth of what he has written.
Word family 11 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μάρτυς mártys · G3144 · witness, one who testifies, martyr · 35×μαρτυρέω martyréō · G3140 · to witness, to speak well of, to approve of · 76×μαρτυρία martyría · G3141 · to witness, testimony, witness · 37×μαρτύριον martýrion · G3142 · to witness, testimony, witness · 20×διαμαρτύρομαι diamartýromai · G1263 · to declare, to assert, to testify · 15×μαρτύρομαι martýromai · G3143 · to declare, to assert, to testify · 5×καταμαρτυρέω katamartyréō · G2649 · to witness against, to testify against · 3×συμμαρτυρέω symmartyréō · G4828 · to support by testimony, to provide supporting evidence, to testify in support · 3×ἐπιμαρτυρέωepimartyréō · G1957προμαρτύρομαι promartýromai · G4303 · to predict, to foretell · 1×συνεπιμαρτυρέω synepimartyréō · G4901 · to add one’s witness to, to witness together with · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπιμαρτύρω; to bear witness to, establish by testimony: followed by the accusative with…
ἐπιμαρτύρω; to bear witness to, establish by testimony: followed by the accusative with an infinitive, 1 Pet 5:12. (Plato, Josephus, Plutarch, Lucian, others) (Compare: συνεπιμαρτυρέω.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Witness, Testify1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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