μαρτύριον
testimony
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G3142 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of 1 Corinthians. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
μαρτυριον (martýrion) is a Greek noun most often rendered “testimony.” It first appears in Matthew 8:4. It turns up in 20 verses across 12 books, an uncommon footprint. From the same root come μαρτυς, μαρτυρεω and μαρτυρια. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3142 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #622
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 622 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 45%
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 25%
- Johannine 1 verse · 5%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 5%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 5%
- Revelation 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Testimony 15×, Witness 4×
- American Standard Version: Testimony 18×
- Berean Standard Bible: Testimony 13×, Witnesses 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Testimony 19×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3142 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3142 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3142 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3142 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- testimony
Word origin
Derived from μαρτυς (mártys) (G3144) — witness.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G3144 ; something evidential that is (generally) evidence given or (specifically) the Decalogue (in the sacred Tabernacle): - to be testified testimony witness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3142 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μαρτύριον martýrion | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 8:4 | 18 |
| μαρτυρίου martyríou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Acts 7:44 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3142, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- μαρτυρεω martyréō G3140 to testify
- μαρτυρια martyría G3141 testimony
- μαρτυρομαι martýromai G3143 to call to witness
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μαρτυριον appears 254 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 237 verses in 22 books.
- 254
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 237
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 21:30 μαρτύριον
- Exodus 16:34 μαρτύριον
- Leviticus 1:1 μαρτύριον
- Numbers 1:1 μαρτύριον
- Deuteronomy 4:45 μαρτύριον
- Joshua 4:16 μαρτύριον
- Ruth 4:7 μαρτύριον
- 1 Samuel 9:24 μαρτύριον
- 1 Kings 8:4 μαρτύριον
- 2 Kings 11:12 μαρτύριον
- 1 Chronicles 6:17 μαρτύριον
- 2 Chronicles 1:3 μαρτύριον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3142) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 237. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 21:30 μαρτύριον He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
- Genesis 31:44 μαρτύριον Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
- Exodus 16:34 μαρτύριον As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- Exodus 25:10 μαρτύριον "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 25:16 μαρτύριον You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
- Exodus 25:21 μαρτύριον You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
- Exodus 25:22 μαρτύριον There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
- Exodus 26:33 μαρτύριον You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exodus 26:34 μαρτύριον You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
- Exodus 27:21 μαρτύριον In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 28:43 μαρτύριον They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
- Exodus 29:4 μαρτύριον You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
- Exodus 29:10 μαρτύριον "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
- Exodus 29:11 μαρτύριον You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:30 μαρτύριον Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
- Exodus 29:32 μαρτύριον Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:42 μαρτύριον It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Exodus 29:44 μαρτύριον I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 30:6 μαρτύριον You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 30:16 μαρτύριον You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."
- Exodus 30:18 μαρτύριον "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
- Exodus 30:20 μαρτύριον When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Exodus 30:21 μαρτύριον So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."
- Exodus 30:26 μαρτύριον You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,
- Exodus 30:36 μαρτύριον and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exodus 31:7 μαρτύριον the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
- Exodus 31:18 μαρτύριον He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.
- Exodus 32:15 μαρτύριον Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
- Exodus 33:7 μαρτύριον Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
- Exodus 35:12 μαρτύριον the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
- Exodus 35:21 μαρτύριον They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 37:5 μαρτύριον He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Exodus 37:19 μαρτύριον three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 38:26 μαρτύριον a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
- Exodus 38:27 μαρτύριον The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
- Exodus 39:7 μαρτύριον He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:9 μαρτύριον It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
- Exodus 39:21 μαρτύριον They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:2 μαρτύριον "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:3 μαρτύριον You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
- Exodus 40:5 μαρτύριον You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.
- Exodus 40:6 μαρτύριον You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 40:12 μαρτύριον You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
- Exodus 40:20 μαρτύριον He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
- Exodus 40:21 μαρτύριον He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:22 μαρτύριον He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil.
- Exodus 40:24 μαρτύριον He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tent southward.
- Exodus 40:26 μαρτύριον He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;
- Exodus 40:31 μαρτύριον Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
- Exodus 40:32 μαρτύριον When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3142) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
