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Testified
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The concept of "testified" in the Bible is deeply rooted in the act of bearing witness to the truth, often in the context of God's revelation, the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, and the testimony of believers. The term is used in various contexts throughout Scripture, emphasizing the importance of truth, witness, and the proclamation of God's works and character.

Old Testament Usage

In the Old Testament, the act of testifying is often associated with the Law and the covenant between God and Israel. For instance, the tablets of the Law given to Moses are referred to as the "tablets of the Testimony" (Exodus 31:18), signifying their role as a witness to the covenant. The Ark of the Covenant is also called the "Ark of the Testimony" (Exodus 25:22), serving as a physical representation of God's presence and His covenant with His people.

Prophets in the Old Testament frequently testified against Israel's unfaithfulness and called the people back to God. Their testimonies were often warnings of judgment and calls for repentance, as seen in the ministries of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and other prophets.

New Testament Usage

In the New Testament, the concept of testifying takes on a more personal and Christ-centered focus. John the Baptist is a prominent figure who testified about Jesus, declaring Him to be the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29). His role was to prepare the way for Christ by bearing witness to His identity and mission.

Jesus Himself testified to the truth of His divine nature and mission. InJohn 8:14 , Jesus says, "Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going." His life, death, and resurrection serve as the ultimate testimony to God's redemptive plan.

The apostles and early Christians continued this theme of testimony. The Book of Acts records numerous instances where the apostles testified to the resurrection of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.Acts 4:33 states, "With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all."

Theological Significance

The act of testifying in the Bible is not merely about recounting events; it is a declaration of faith and truth. It involves a commitment to proclaiming God's deeds and character, often in the face of opposition or persecution.Revelation 12:11 highlights the power of testimony in spiritual warfare: "They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony."

Believers are called to testify to the truth of the Gospel, sharing their personal experiences of God's grace and salvation. This testimony is a vital part of the Christian witness, as it serves to edify the church and draw others to faith in Christ.

Practical Application

For Christians today, testifying involves sharing the truth of the Gospel and one's personal experience of God's work in their life. It is an act of obedience and faithfulness, reflecting the believer's commitment to Christ and His mission. Testifying is both a privilege and a responsibility, as it contributes to the spread of the Gospel and the building up of the body of Christ.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(imp. & p. p.) of Testify.
Greek
3142. marturion -- a testimony, a witness
... Word Origin from martus Definition a testimony, a witness NASB Word Usage testimony
(19), witness (1). to betestified, testimony, witness....

1263. diamarturomai -- to affirm solemnly
... Origin from dia and marturomai Definition to affirm solemnly NASB Word Usage solemnly
to testify (1), solemnly charge (3), solemnlytestified (2), solemnly...

5577a. pseudomarturia -- false witness, false testimony
... Word Origin from pseudomartus Definition false witness, false testimony NASB Word
Usage false testimony (1), false witness (1),testified (1). 5577, 5577a....

3140. martureo -- to bear witness, testify
... 1), having a reputation (1), obtained the testimony (1), obtained the witness (1),
received a good testimony (1), speaking well (1),testified (17), testifies...

Strong's Hebrew
496. Elad -- "God hastestified," an Ephraimite
... 495, 496. Elad. 497 . "God hastestified," an Ephraimite. Transliteration:
Elad Phonetic Spelling: (el-awd') Short Definition: Elead....

5749b. ud -- to bear witness
... 2), admonished (6), call (5), called (1), gave witness (1), give warning (1), solemnly
warn (2), solemnly warned (2), take (1),testified (3), testify (4...

6030a. anah -- to answer, respond
... 1), have (1), replied (29), replied* (1), respond (6), responded (3), responded*
(7), said (1), said* (2), spoke (3), tell (1),testified (1), testifies (3...

Library

John Chapter iv. 43-54
... And the evangelist, as he goes on, says, "For Jesus Himselftestified that a prophet
hath no honor in his own country." It was not because He had no honor in...

Sabbath Observance
... and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which
they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and Itestified against them...

The Conclusion
... Four times we have the person testifying; and four times the thingstestified....
Conclusion. A A^1 a^1 6-. The Angel testifying. b^1 -6. The thingstestified....

Hebrews ii. 7-May
... But one in a certain placetestified, saying, What is man that Thou art
mindful of him, or the son of man that Thou visitest him?...

The Apostolic Experience
... In rehearsing this wonderful event to the brethren and apostles at Jerusalem he
testified to the unquestionable leading of the Spirit to this company of...

Witnessing in Power.
... And if you will turn over to the second chapter of Acts you will find that when
Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost, andtestified of what Christ had done...

In Rome
... At the time appointed, many came together, "to whom he expounded andtestified the
kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of...

The Book of Enoch
... it could have been preserved in the Deluge and handed down to Christian times, and
that it was rejected by the Jews because it too plainlytestified of Christ....

The Second Sign in Galilee.
... And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on Him because of the word of
the woman, whotestified, He told me all things that ever I did....

The Twenty-Second Psalm.
... The Spirit of Christ, which was in themtestified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ (1 Peter 10-11). David was a prophet, and...

Thesaurus
Testified (65 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Testify. Multi-Version Concordance
Testified (65 Occurrences).... John 1:15 Johntestified about him....

Admonished (16 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). 2 Chronicles 24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again
unto Jehovah; and theytestified against them: but they would not give ear....

Forewarned (15 Occurrences)
... take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord
is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you andtestified....

Warnings (6 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their
fathers, and his testimonies which hetestified to them; and they followed...

Testimonies (40 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their
fathers, and his testimonies which hetestified to them; and they followed...

Solemnly (62 Occurrences)
... Acts 8:25 They therefore, when they hadtestified and spoken the word of the Lord,
returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the...

Samaritans (9 Occurrences)
... John 4:39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word
of the woman, whotestified, "He told me everything that I did." (WEB KJV...

Stoned (38 Occurrences)
... Exodus 21:29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been
testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a...

Warned (63 Occurrences)
... take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord
is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you andtestified....

Testify (110 Occurrences)
... Acts 23:11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul,
for as you havetestified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at...

Resources
Is Jesus God's Son? How could Allah, being one, have a Son? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about bribery / giving or receiving a bribe? | GotQuestions.org

What is the fourfold witness? | GotQuestions.org

Testified: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Testified (65 Occurrences)

Matthew 26:61
whotestified, "This man said, 'I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'"
(WEY)

Luke 4:22
Alltestified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
(WEB)

John 1:15
Johntestified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said,'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"
(WEB WBS NAS)

John 1:32
Johntestified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
(WEB YLT NAS)

John 1:34
I have seen, and havetestified that this is the Son of God."
(WEB YLT NAS)

John 3:26
They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you havetestified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
(WEB NAS NIV)

John 4:39
From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, whotestified, "He told me everything that I did."
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS)

John 4:44
For Jesus himselftestified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

John 5:33
You have sent to John, and he hastestified to the truth.
(WEB WBS YLT NAS NIV)

John 5:37
The Father himself, who sent me, hastestified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
(WEB YLT NAS NIV)

John 13:21
When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, andtestified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

John 19:35
He who has seen hastestified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
(WEB WBS YLT NAS)

Acts 2:40
With many other words hetestified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Acts 6:3
look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are welltestified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,
(YLT)

Acts 6:13
and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
(See NIV)

Acts 8:25
They therefore, when they hadtestified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 10:22
And they said, 'Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, welltestified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'
(YLT)

Acts 13:22
When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he alsotestified,'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
(WEB YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 14:3
Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, whotestified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
(WEB)

Acts 15:8
God, who knows the heart,testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
(WEB NAS)

Acts 16:2
who was welltestified to by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium;
(YLT)

Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, andtestified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
(KJV WBS)

Acts 22:12
and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, beingtestified to by all the Jews dwelling 'there',
(YLT)

Acts 23:11
The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you havetestified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Acts 28:23
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded andtestified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
(KJV WBS)

Romans 3:21
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, beingtestified by the law and the prophets;
(WEB WBS YLT)

1 Corinthians 15:15
Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because wetestified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
(WEB KJV WEY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you andtestified.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to betestified in due time.
(KJV WEY WBS)

1 Timothy 5:10
in good works beingtestified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
(YLT)

1 Timothy 6:13
I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilatetestified the good confession,
(WEB WBS NAS)

Hebrews 2:6
But one has somewheretestified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 7:8
Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it istestified that he lives.
(WEB WBS YLT RSV)

Hebrews 7:17
for it istestified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
(WEB)

Hebrews 11:2
for in this were the elderstestified of;
(YLT)

Hebrews 11:4
by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he wastestified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.
(YLT)

Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had beentestified to -- that he had pleased God well,
(YLT)

Hebrews 11:39
and these all, having beentestified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
(YLT)

1 Peter 1:11
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when ittestified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
(KJV ASV WBS)

1 John 5:9
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he hastestified concerning his Son.
(WEB KJV WEY WBS YLT NAS)

1 John 5:10
He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hathtestified concerning His Son;
(YLT)

3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came andtestified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
(WEB KJV WBS NAS RSV)

3 John 1:6
They havetestified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God,
(WEB WEY NAS RSV)

Revelation 1:2
whotestified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
(WEB DBY NAS)

Exodus 19:23
And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou hasttestified to us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain, and hallow it.
(DBY)

Exodus 21:29
But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has beentestified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 8:19
And it hath been -- if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I havetestified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 19:18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and hastestified falsely against his brother;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 31:21
And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hathtestified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing to-day, before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn.'
(YLT)

Ruth 1:21
I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh hastestified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

2 Samuel 1:16
David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth hastestified against you, saying,'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellowstestified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
(WEB NAS)

2 Kings 17:13
Yet Yahwehtestified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which hetestified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Chronicles 24:19
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and theytestified against them: but they would not give ear.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets thattestified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years you put up with them, andtestified against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Nehemiah 9:34
neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which youtestified against them.
(WEB YLT)

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and Itestified against them in the day in which they sold food.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Nehemiah 13:21
Then Itestified against them, and said to them, Why do you stay around the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins havetestified against us, For our transgressions 'are' with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 11:7
For I certainlytestified against your fathers, In the day of My bringing them up out of the land of Egypt -- till this day, Rising early and testifying, saying, Hearken to My voice,
(YLT)

Jeremiah 14:7
Surely our iniquities havetestified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 42:19
Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you go into Egypt: know certainly that I havetestified to you this day.
(WEB ASV YLT NAS)

Malachi 2:14
And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hathtestified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.
(YLT)

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