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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Witness
Thompson Chain Reference
• Witnessing to the Truth
• Witnesses, False
• Witnesses
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The Topic Concordance
• Witness
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Witness
• Moon, or Rainbow, As Witness
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Witness of the Holy Spirit
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Witness
• Wit
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Witness
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Witness
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Witness of the Spirit
• Witness
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Witnesses
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Witness, Martyr
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Witness
• Wit
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Witness (2)
• Witness
• False Witness
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King James Dictionary
• Witnessing
• Witnessed
• Witness
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Witness
• Wit, to, Wot, Wist
• Wit, to
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Witness, Faithful
• Faithful Witness
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Witness
Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Witness
• Wit
• Witness
Webster Dictionary
• Sodden-Witted
• Slow-Witted
• Sharp-Witted
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• George Augustus Selwyn (Wit)
• Witness
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• False Swearing, Witness
• Tabernacle of Testimony (Witness)
• Witness
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Witness
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Witness
• Witness of the Spirit
• Witness, False.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Witness
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• False Witness
• Witness
Lexicons
• ܚܰܙܳܝܳܐ
• ܣܗܶܕ݂
• ܣܳܗܕ݁ܳܐ
• ἀμάρτυρος
• γνωρίζω
• διαμαρτύρομαι
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• אוֹת
• חָכְמָה
• עֵד
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One who testifies to any fact from his own personal knowledge. Under the Mosaic law, two witnesses under oath were necessary to convict a person charged with a capital crime, Numbers 35:30; and if the criminal was stoned, the witnesses were bound to cast the first stones, Deuteronomy 17:6-7 Acts 7:58 . The Greek word for witness is MARTYR , which see.

The apostles were witnesses, in proclaiming to the world the facts of the gospel, Acts 1:8,22 2:32 2 Peter 1:12,16-18; and Christ is a "faithful witness," in testifying to men of heavenly things, John 3:12 Revelation 1:5 . The heroes of the ancient church are "witnesses" to the power of true faith, Hebrews 12:1 .