2001 Translation

MARTYS, martys

Sounds Like: MAR-toos

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 evidence, often in a legal or judicial context. In later Christian usage, it also came to mean a 'martyr,' someone who bears witness to their faith by suffering death. It can be used to describe a person who has seen or heard something and can provide an account of it, or someone who attests to the truth of something.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G3144 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:11

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 88:38
• Proverbs — 6:19, 12:17, 12:19, 14:5, 14:25, 19:5, 19:9, 21:28, 24:28
• Job — 16:19
• Wisdom — 1:6
• Isaiah — 43:10
• Jeremiah — 36:23
• Malachi — 3:5
• Acts of the Apostles — 22:15
• Romans — 1:9
• Philippians — 1:8
• 1 Thessalonians — 2:5
• 1 Peter — 5:1
• Revelation — 2:13, 3:14

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 7:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 19:129, 16:155, 41:290
• Book Two — 16:155, 41:290

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 6:128
• Book 2 — 3:23
• Book 4 — 3:40, 3:41, 3:46, 8:219
• Book 5 — 1:113
• Book 13 — 8:250
• Book 14 — 8:141

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:10, 10:10, 31:14, 33:14, 33:20
• Book Five — 7:21
• Book Six — 2:42

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 23:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 122:1

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 16:2, 19:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 31:44, 31:47
• Exodus — 23:1
• Leviticus — 5:1
• Numbers — 5:13, 23:18, 35:30
• Deuteronomy — 19:15, 19:16, 19:18
• 1 Samuel — 12:5, 12:6, 20:23, 20:42
• 1 Kings — 17:20
• Psalms — 88:38
• Proverbs — 6:19, 12:17, 12:19, 14:5, 14:25, 19:2, 19:6, 21:28, 24:43
• Job — 16:20
• Wisdom — 1:6
• Isaiah — 43:10
• Jeremiah — 36:23
• Malachi — 3:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 22:15
• Romans — 1:9
• Philippians — 1:8
• 1 Thessalonians — 2:5
• 1 Peter — 5:1
• Revelation — 1:5, 2:13, 3:14

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
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΣ — of a witness, of a martyr, of a testimony
• ΜΑΡΤΥΡΩΝ — of witnesses, of martyrs
• ΜΑΡΤΥΣΙ — witnesses
• ΜΑΡΤΥΣΙΝ — to witnesses, for witnesses, by witnesses

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