Word Summary
symmartyreō: to testify or bear witness with
Original Word: συμμαρτυρέωTransliteration: symmartyreō
Phonetic Spelling: (soom-mar-too-reh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to testify or bear witness with
Meaning: to testify or bear witness with
Strong's Concordance
testify unto, bear witness
From sun and martureo; to testify jointly, i.e. Corroborate by (concurrent) evidence -- testify unto, (also) bear witness (with).
see GREEK sun
see GREEK martureo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4828: συμμαρτυρέωσυμμαρτυρέω,
συμμαρτύρω (
T WH συνμαρτυρέω (cf.
σύν, II. at the end));
to bear witness with, bear joint witness (with one):
συμμαρτυρούσης τῆς συνειδήσεως, their conscience also bearing witness,
Romans 2:15 (i. e. together with the deeds of the Gentiles, which accord with the law of God and so bear witness (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 580 (539))); followed by
ὅτι,
Romans 9:1 (besides the fact that the close felloship I have with Christ compels me to tell the truth);
τῷ πνεύματι ἡμῶν, with our spirit already giving its testimony,
Romans 8:16. Middle present 1 person singular
Συμμαρτυροῦμαι,
I testify on my own behalf besides (i. e. besides those things which I have already testified in this book),
Revelation 22:18 Rec.; but the true reading here,
μαρτυρῶ, was restored by Griesbach (
Sophocles,
Euripides,
Thucydides,
Plato, others.)