2001 Translation

MARTYRA, martyra

Sounds Like: MAR-too-rah

Translations: witness, a witness, martyr, a martyr

From the root: ΜΑΡΤΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a witness, someone who gives testimony or provides evidence. In a broader sense, it can also refer to a martyr, someone who bears witness to their faith or convictions through suffering or death. It is used to describe a person who has seen or heard something and can attest to its truth.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G3144 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:30, 10:24

Codex Sinaiticus

• Jeremiah — 49:5
• Acts of the Apostles — 1:22, 26:16
• 2 Corinthians — 1:23

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:75, 17:112, 39:279
• Book Two — 39:279

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 16:243
• Book 6 — 11:230, 13:276
• Book 9 — 8:169
• Book 16 — 4:106
• Book 17 — 5:103
• Book 19 — 1:33

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:12
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Jeremiah — 49:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 1:22, 26:16
• 2 Corinthians — 1:23

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΡΤΥΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΝ — without witness, unattested, unproved, unconfirmed
• ΜΑΡΤΘΡΕΣ — witnesses
• ΜΑΡΤΙ — witness, a witness, martyr, a martyr
• ΜΑΡΤΥΝ — witness, a witness, martyr, a martyr
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΑΙΣ — to a witness, to witnesses, for a witness, for witnesses
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΑΣ — witness, a witness, martyr, a martyr
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ — witnesses, a witness
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΣ — of a witness, of a martyr, of a testimony
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΩΝ — of witnesses, of martyrs
• ΜΑΡΤΥΣ — witness, a witness, martyr, a martyr
• ΜΑΡΤΥΣΙ — witnesses
• ΜΑΡΤΥΣΙΝ — to witnesses, for witnesses, by witnesses

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