Strong's Number 3144
Transliteration:
martus
{mar'-toos}
Word Origin:
of uncertain affinity
TDNT:
4:474,564
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
witness 29, martyr 3, record 2
Total: 34
Definition:
- a witness
- in a legal sense
- an historical sense
- one who is a spectator of anything, e.g. of a contest
- in an ethical sense
- those who after his example have proved the strength and genuineness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a violent death