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Koine Greek wordlink #101223

SR GNT Acts 23:11 μαρτυρῆσαι (marturaʸsai) ‘also at Ɽōmaʸ to testify’ Strongs=31400 Lemma=martureō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_goes_before_the_Council TimeSeries=Paul_goes_before_the_Council

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Other uses (1) of identical word form μαρτυρῆσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μαρτυρῆσαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to testify’.

Rev 22:16 ‘the messenger of me to testify to you_all these things in’ SR GNT Rev 22:16 word 7

OET-LV: 16 I, Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), sent the messenger of _me, to _testify to _you _all these things in the assemblies. I am the root and the descent of _Dawid/(Dāvid), the star the shining, the morning. (REV_22:16)

OET-RV: 16 “I, Yeshua, have sent my messenger to explain these things to you concerning the churches. I am both David’s source and his descendant—the bright morning star.” (REV 22:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘martureō’ have 32 different glosses: ‘am testifying’, ‘are testifying’, ‘being attested’, ‘has testified’, ‘has_been attested’, ‘have testified’, ‘having testified’, ‘having_been attested’, ‘is testifying’, ‘may testify’, ‘may_be testifying’, ‘to testify’, ‘to_be testifying’, ‘was testifying’, ‘was_being attested’, ‘were attested’, ‘were testifying’, ‘will_be testifying’, ‘I am testifying’, ‘I may testify’, ‘he has testified’, ‘he has_been attested’, ‘he is testifying’, ‘he may testify’, ‘he was attested’, ‘it is_being testified’, ‘we are testifying’, ‘we testified’, ‘you_all are testifying’, ‘testified’, ‘testify’, ‘testifying’.

Greek words (7) other than μαρτυρῆσαι (V-NAA····) with a gloss related to ‘testify’

YHN 1:7 μαρτυρήσῃ (marturaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘for a testimony in_order_that he may testify concerning the light’ SR GNT Yhn 1:7 word 7

OET-LV: 7 This one came for a_testimony, in _order _that he _may _testify concerning the light, in _order _that all may _believe through him. (JHN_1:7)

OET-RV: 7 He came as a testimony to tell about the light so that everyone would believe the light. (JHN 1:7)

YHN 1:8 μαρτυρήσῃ (marturaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘light but in_order_that he may testify concerning the light’ SR GNT Yhn 1:8 word 8

OET-LV: 8 That one was not the light, but in _order _that he _may _testify concerning the light. (JHN_1:8)

OET-RV: 8 Yohan himself wasn’t the light—he was merely the announcer of the light. (JHN 1:8)

YHN 2:25 μαρτυρήσῃ (marturaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘he was having that anyone may testify concerning mankind he’ SR GNT Yhn 2:25 word 9

OET-LV: 25 And that he _was _having no need that anyone may _testify concerning the mankind, because/for he was _knowing what was in the person. (JHN_2:25)

OET-RV: 25 (He didn’t need anyone to tell him what people are like because he could see what any person was like on the inside.) (JHN 2:25)

YHN 18:23 μαρτύρησον (marturaʸson) V-MAA2··S ‘if wrongly I spoke testify concerning the evil’ SR GNT Yhn 18:23 word 12

OET-LV: 23 Yaʸsous answered to _him: If I _spoke wrongly, testify concerning the evil, but if rightly, why are _you _beating me? (JHN_18:23)

OET-RV: 23 But Yeshua responded, “If I said anything wrong, tell me my error. But if it was true, why are you hitting me?” (JHN 18:23)

YHN 18:37 μαρτυρήσω (marturaʸsō) V-SAA1··S ‘the world in_order_that I may testify to the truth everyone’ SR GNT Yhn 18:37 word 36

OET-LV: 37 Therefore the Pilatos said to _him: Are you not _then a_king? The Yaʸsous answered: You are _saying that I am a_king. for this I _have _been _born, and for this I _have _come into the world, in _order _that I _may _testify to _the truth. Everyone which being of the truth, is _hearing of _the voice of _me. (JHN_18:37)

OET-RV: 37 “So you are a king then?” Pilate responded.
¶ “You’re saying that I’m a king,” said Yeshua, “and indeed I was born to be a king. I came into the world so that I could testify to the truth.” (JHN 18:37)

ACTs 10:42 διαμαρτύρασθαι (diamarturasthai) V-NAM···· Lemma=diamarturomai ‘to the people and to testify that this one is’ SR GNT Acts 10:42 word 9

OET-LV: 42 And he _commanded to _us to _proclaim to _the people, and to _testify that this one is the one having _been _designated by the god, as _judge of_the_living and the_dead. (ACT_10:42)

OET-RV: 42 He commanded us to tell the people, and to testify that he is the one who God has designated to be the judge of the living and the dead. (ACT 10:42)

ACTs 20:24 διαμαρτύρασθαι (diamarturasthai) V-NAM···· Lemma=diamarturomai ‘the master Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) to testify the good_message of the’ SR GNT Acts 20:24 word 41

OET-LV: 24 But of _nothing account I _am _making the life precious to _myself, so _as I _may _complete the course of _me, and the service which I _received from the master Yaʸsous, to _testify the good _message of _the grace of_ the _god. (ACT_20:24)

OET-RV: 24 But I’ve never regarded my own life as being valuable—I only want to reach the end of my life having served in the way that the master Yeshua instructed me to speak out the good message about God’s grace. (ACT 20:24)

Key: V=verb