μάρτυς

mavrtu" mavrtu" (Aeolic
mavrtur, a form not found in the N. T.; (etymologically one who is mindful, heeds; probably allied with Latin memor, cf. Vanicek, p. 1201; Curtius, sec. 466)),
mavrturov", accusative
mavrtura,
oJ; plural
mavrture", dative plural
mavrtusi; the Septuagint for d[e; (Hesiod, Simonides, Theognis, others); a witness (one who avers, or can aver, what he himself has seen or heard or knows by any other means); a. in a legal sense: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . b. in an historical sense: ; ; (); one who is a spectator of anything, e. g. of a contest, ; with a genitive of the object, ; ; ; ; G L T Tr WH; ; ; ; with a genitive of the possessor `one who testifies for one', L T Tr WH; ; with a genitive of the possessor and of the object, Rec.;
mavrtura
ei\nai
tivni, to be a witness for one, serve him by testimony, R G; ; ( T Tr WH). He is said to be a witness, to whose attestation appeal is made; hence, the formulas
mavrtu"
mou
ejstin
oJ
Qeov", ; ;
Qeov"
mavrtu", :
mavrtura
tovn
Qeovn
ejpikalou'mai, ;
uJmei'"
mavrture"
kaiv
oJ
Qeov", ; the faithful interpreters of God's counsels are called God's witnesses: ; Christ is reckoned among them, ; . c. in an ethical sense those are called
mavrture"
!Ihsou', who after his example have proved the strength and genuineness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a violent death (cf B. D. American edition and Dict. of Chris. Antiq. under the word Martyr): ; ; .*