'Witness' in the Bible

And he saith, 'For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

And Laban saith, 'This heap is witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see, God is witness between me and thee.'

this heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;

if it is certainly torn, he bringeth it in -- a witness; the torn thing he doth not repay.

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

And when a person doth sin, and hath heard the voice of an oath, and he is witness, or hath seen, or hath known -- if he declare not, then he hath borne his iniquity:

and a man hath lain with her with the seed of copulation, and it hath been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she hath been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she hath not been caught,

whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.

By the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses is he who is dead put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;

'One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,

and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness is a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:

'And now, write for you this song, and teach it the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song is to Me for a witness against the sons of Israel,

'And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified 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.'

'Take this Book of the Law, and thou hast set it on the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and it hath been there against thee for a witness;

but a witness it is between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, and your sons do not say hereafter to our sons, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.

And we say, And it hath been, when they say so unto us, and unto our generations hereafter, that we have said, See the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made -- not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice -- but a witness it is between us and you.

And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad proclaim concerning the altar, that 'it is a witness between us that Jehovah is God.'

And Joshua saith unto all the people, 'Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.'

And he saith unto them, 'A witness is Jehovah against you: and a witness is His anointed this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand;' and they say, 'A witness.'

And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

As the moon it is established -- to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.

A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.

A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.

Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,

Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.

Because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and speak a word in My name falsely that I have not commanded them, and I am He who knoweth and a witness -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

And they have said to Jeremiah, 'Jehovah is against us for a witness true and faithful, if -- according to all the word with which Jehovah thy God doth send thee unto us -- we do not so.

Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fulness, And the Lord Jehovah is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.