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μεμαρτύρηκεν / μαρτυρία

To testify · evidence given (judicially or genitive case)

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μαρτυρέω G3140 to testify
Pronunciation martyréō
To testify is to publicly affirm what one has directly witnessed or personally knows to be true.
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μαρτυρία G3141 evidence given (judicially or genitive case)
Pronunciation martyría
Testimony or evidence given formally, especially witness to Christ and divine truth in NT contexts.
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What does μεμαρτύρηκεν / μαρτυρία (memartyrēken / martyria) mean in the Bible?

μαρτυρέω · μαρτυρία is a Greek word meaning "testify, testimony, witness".

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Meaning

testify, testimony, witness
Grammatical Forms

How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.

Tenses
Present Aorist Perfect Imperfect Future
Voices
Active Passive
Indicative states a fact or reality 46×
Present Active John 1:15 · John 3:32 · John 5:32 · John 5:36 · John 8:18 · John 10:25 · Acts 22:5 · Heb 10:15 · John 7:7 · Rom 10:2 · 2 Cor 8:3 · Gal 4:15 · Col 4:13 · Rev 22:18 · John 3:11 · 1 John 1:2 23×
Aorist Active John 1:32 · John 4:44 · John 13:21 · Acts 15:8 · Rev 1:2 · 1 Cor 15:15 · 3 John 1:6 7×
Perfect Active John 5:33 · John 5:37 · John 19:35 · 1 John 5:9 · 1 John 5:10 · John 1:34 · John 3:26 7×
Perfect Passive Heb 11:5 · 3 John 1:12 2×
Imperfect Active Luke 4:22 · John 12:17 2×
Aorist Passive Heb 11:2 · Heb 11:4 2×
Future Active John 15:26 1×
Imperfect Passive Acts 16:2 1×
Present Passive Heb 7:17 1×
Participle verbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality 20×
Present Active John 5:32 · John 8:18 · John 21:24 · Rev 22:20 · John 4:39 · John 5:39 · Acts 14:3 · Heb 11:4 · 1 John 5:6 · 1 John 5:7 · 3 John 1:3 11×
Present Passive Acts 10:22 · Acts 22:12 · Heb 7:8 · Rom 3:21 · 1 Tim 5:10 · Acts 6:3 6×
Aorist Active Acts 13:22 · 1 Tim 6:13 2×
Aorist Passive Heb 11:39 1×
Subjunctive possibility, probability, or purpose 6×
Aorist Active John 1:7 · John 1:8 · John 2:25 · John 18:37 4×
Present Active John 5:31 · John 8:14 2×
Infinitive verbal noun — the action in abstract 3×
Aorist Active Acts 23:11 · Rev 22:16 2×
Present Active Acts 26:5 1×
Imperative command or strong request 1×
Aorist Active John 18:23 1×
76 total occurrences across all forms in the biblical text Morphology: MorphGNT SBLGNT — CC BY-SA 3.0
Discourse Aspect

How this verb appears across 75 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).

Aspect
completed 9 ongoing 23 prospective 1 resultant 9 imperative 1 background 3 subjunctive 6 infinitive 3 participle 20
Tense
present 43 aorist 19 perfect 9 imperfect 3 future 1
Voice
active 62 passive 13
Mood
indicative 45 participle 20 subjunctive 6 infinitive 3 imperative 1
NT Occurrences
Matthew 23:31 μαρτυρεῖτε present active indicative ongoing Luke 4:22 ἐμαρτύρουν imperfect active indicative background John 1:15 μαρτυρεῖ present active indicative ongoing John 1:32 ἐμαρτύρησεν aorist active indicative completed John 1:34 μεμαρτύρηκα perfect active indicative resultant John 1:7 μαρτυρήσῃ aorist active subjunctive subjunctive John 1:8 μαρτυρήσῃ aorist active subjunctive subjunctive John 2:25 μαρτυρήσῃ aorist active subjunctive subjunctive John 3:11 μαρτυροῦμεν present active indicative ongoing John 3:26 μεμαρτύρηκας perfect active indicative resultant John 3:28 μαρτυρεῖτε present active indicative ongoing John 3:32 μαρτυρεῖ present active indicative ongoing John 4:39 μαρτυρούσης present active participle participle John 4:44 ἐμαρτύρησεν aorist active indicative completed John 5:31 μαρτυρῶ present active subjunctive subjunctive John 5:32 μαρτυρῶν present active participle participle John 5:32 μαρτυρεῖ present active indicative ongoing John 5:33 μεμαρτύρηκε perfect active indicative resultant John 5:36 μαρτυρεῖ present active indicative ongoing John 5:37 μεμαρτύρηκεν perfect active indicative resultant John 5:39 μαρτυροῦσαι present active participle participle John 7:7 μαρτυρῶ present active indicative ongoing John 8:13 μαρτυρεῖς present active indicative ongoing John 8:14 μαρτυρῶ present active subjunctive subjunctive John 8:18 μαρτυρῶν present active participle participle John 8:18 μαρτυρεῖ present active indicative ongoing John 10:25 μαρτυρεῖ present active indicative ongoing John 12:17 ἐμαρτύρει imperfect active indicative background John 13:21 ἐμαρτύρησεν aorist active indicative completed John 15:26 μαρτυρήσει future active indicative prospective John 15:27 μαρτυρεῖτε present active indicative ongoing John 18:23 μαρτύρησον aorist active imperative imperative John 18:37 μαρτυρήσω aorist active subjunctive subjunctive John 19:35 μεμαρτύρηκεν perfect active indicative resultant John 21:24 μαρτυρῶν present active participle participle Acts 6:3 μαρτυρουμένους present passive participle participle Acts 10:22 μαρτυρούμενός present passive participle participle Acts 10:43 μαρτυροῦσιν present active indicative ongoing Acts 13:22 μαρτυρήσας aorist active participle participle Acts 14:3 μαρτυροῦντι present active participle participle +35 more occurrences

Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.

Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)

Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

Acts 16 — The Gospel Enters Macedonia: Opened Hearts, Broken Chains, and Household Faith Acts 22 — Paul’s Defense: Christ Appears, Sends, and Preserves His Witness Acts 26 — Paul Before Agrippa: The Risen Christ Sends Light to Jews and Gentiles Acts 6 — Word Ministry, Servant Leadership, and Stephen’s Faithful Witness John 1 — The Word Made Flesh, Witnessed, and Followed John 12 — The Anointed King, the Lifted-Up Son of Man, and the Hour of Glory John 13 — The Servant-Lord, the Washed Disciples, and the New Command of Love John 15 — The True Vine, Abiding Fruitfulness, Christlike Love, and the World’s Hatred John 18 — The Arrested King: Betrayal, Sovereign Surrender, Denial, Trial, and the Kingdom Not of This World John 19 — The Crucified King: Behold the Man, Behold Your King, It Is Finished, and the Pierced Son John 21 — The Risen Lord Restores, Commissions, Shepherds, and Testifies through His Witness John 5 — The Son Who Gives Life, Judges, and Is Witnessed by the Father John 7 — The Feast, the Divided Crowd, and the Living Water of Jesus John 8 — The Light of the World, True Freedom, and the I AM Before Abraham Mark 14 — The Son of Man Handed Over: Anointing, Supper, Gethsemane, Betrayal, Trial, and Denial

A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) — public domain

Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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