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μαρτύρομαι

Strong’s: G3143

Associated OET lemmas: μαρτύρομαι

Notes: It is possible that διαμαρτύρομαι[a] is somewhat stronger and more emphatic than μαρτύρομαι[a], but this cannot be shown from NT contexts.; It is possible that διαμαρτύρομαι[b] is somewhat more emphatic in connotation than μαρτύρομαι[b], but this cannot be determined from existing contexts.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: μαρτυρέω

Sense 1: to declare, to assert, to testify

Semantic entry: 33.223

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Assert, Declare

Definition: to make a serious declaration on the basis of presumed personal knowledge{N:001}

ACT 20:26: RV ACT 20:26 · LV ACT 20:26 · Read together ACT 20:26

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OET-RV ACT 20:26

26 That’s why I’m declaring to all of you today that I’m not guilty of your judgement

OET-LV ACT 20:26

26 Therefore I _am _testifying to _you _all in the today day that I _am pure from the blood of _all,

ACT 26:22: RV ACT 26:22 · LV ACT 26:22 · Read together ACT 26:22

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OET-RV ACT 26:22

22 So it is that with God’s help until this very day I have stood testifying to commoners and leaders, teaching nothing other than what Mosheh (Moses) and the prophets had already written that would happen—

OET-LV ACT 26:22

22 Therefore having _obtained of _help which from the god until the this day, I _have _stood testifying to _small both and to _great, nothing besides saying of _what things both the prophets and Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh) spoke going to _be _becoming,

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

ACT: RV ACT 20:26 · RV ACT 26:22 · LV ACT 20:26 · LV ACT 26:22 · Read together ACT 20:26 · Read together ACT 26:22

GAL: RV GAL 5:3 · LV GAL 5:3 · Read together GAL 5:3

Sense 2: to insist

Semantic entry: 33.319

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Insist

Definition: to be emphatic in stating an opinion or desire{N:002}

EPH 4:17: RV EPH 4:17 · LV EPH 4:17 · Read together EPH 4:17

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OET-RV EPH 4:17

17 So I’ll say this with Yahweh’s direction: you all are no longer to walk like unbelieving pagans who trust in their own futile thinking.

OET-LV EPH 4:17

17 Therefore I _am _saying this and I _am _testifying in the_master, you _all to _be _walking no _longer as also the pagans is _walking in the_uselessness of _the mind of _them.

TH1 2:12: RV TH1 2:12 · LV TH1 2:12 · Read together TH1 2:12

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OET-RV TH1 2:12

12 how to encourage and to console them. We testified to you so that you all would live lives worthy of God—the one who invited you into his kingdom and to share his honour.

OET-LV TH1 2:12

12 exhorting you _all, and consoling, and testifying, in _order that to _be _walking you _all worthily of_ the _god, the one having _called you _all into the of _himself kingdom and glory.