10 occurrences in 13 translations

'Witness' in the Bible

For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineThose Who Rose EarlyPay Attention To God!God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

“O Lord, though our many sins testify against us” [prays Jeremiah],“Act now [for us and] for Your name’s sake [so that the faithless may witness Your faithfulness]!For our backslidings are countless;We have sinned against You.

Verse ConceptsWitness Against OneselfWe Have SinnedBackslidingtestifying

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism

Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAdultery, Examples OfImmorality, Examples Of SexualThe Witness Of GodWicked Prophets

And I signed on the letter and sealed [it], and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.

Verse ConceptsBalances, For BusinessWeighingSignaturesWitnessingbalanceweight

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.

Verse ConceptsClayStaying A Long Time

Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, "Buy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness," though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

Verse ConceptsWitnesses, Legal

They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds, and they will seal [them], and they will call witnesses as witness in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, for I will restore their fortunes,' {declares} Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsSignaturesThe Shephelah

Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

Verse ConceptsThe Witness Of God

The Lord has said about you, O last of Judah, Go not into Egypt: be certain that I have given witness to you this day.

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Looker (1 instance)
Spectator (2 instances)
Watcher (3 instances)
Witness (321 instances)

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