ΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΣ, μαρτυρος
MARTYROS, martyros
Sounds Like: mar-TOO-ross
Translations: of a witness, of a martyr, of a testimony
From the root: ΜΑΡΤΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to someone who bears witness or gives testimony, often in a legal or formal context. Over time, it also came to signify someone who suffers or dies for their beliefs, particularly in a religious sense, leading to the English word 'martyr'. It is used to indicate possession or origin, as in 'the testimony of a witness' or 'the blood of a martyr'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3144 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:11
Codex Sinaiticus
- Acts of the Apostles — 22:20
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Martyrdom of Polycarp — 15:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 22:20
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
- ΜΑΡΤΥΡΑ — 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
- 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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