G3144 – martus – μάρτυς – a witness
- Strong’s ID:
- G3144
- Greek Word:
- μάρτυς
- Transliteration:
- martus
- Pronunciation:
- mar’-toos
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 34
- Search:
- Find “martus” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
of uncertain affinity; a witness (literally [judicially] or figuratively [genitive case]); by analogy, a “martyr”:—martyr, record, witness.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a witness
1a) in a legal sense
1b) an historical sense
1b1) one who is a spectator of anything, e.g. of a contest
1c) in an ethical sense
1c1) those who after his example have proved the strength and genuineness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a violent death
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.