2001 Translation

MARTYRAS, martyras

Sounds Like: MAR-too-ras

Translations: witness, a witness, martyr, a martyr

From the root: ΜΑΡΤΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a witness, someone who testifies or gives evidence, often in a legal or public setting. It can also refer to someone who suffers for their beliefs, leading to the English word 'martyr'. It is used to describe a person who has seen or knows something and can provide an account of it.

Inflection: Masculine, Plural, Accusative

Strong’s number: G3144 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:116

Codex Sinaiticus

• Isaiah — 8:2, 43:9
• Jeremiah — 39:10, 39:25, 39:44
• Acts of the Apostles — 6:13

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 7:32, 9:51, 13:69, 15:93, 1:1, 41:288
• Book Two — 1:1, 41:288

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 14 — 3:45
• Book 15 — 5:130

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Six — 3:24

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 49:256, 49:257

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 17:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Isaiah — 8:2, 43:9
• Jeremiah — 39:10, 39:25, 39:44

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 6:13

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
• 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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