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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
• Witness
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.
•   (only first 3 shown)
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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Two at least were required to establish any charge (Numbers 35:30; Deuteronomy 17:6; Deuteronomy 19:15; Hebrews 10:28). So in the Christian church (1 Timothy 5:19). Written evidence in the case of divorce, not as among the Bedouins and Mussulmen a mere spoken sentence (Deuteronomy 24:1; Deuteronomy 24:3). Also in civil contracts (Isaiah 8:16; Jeremiah 32:10-16). The witnesses were the first to execute sentence (Deuteronomy 13:9; Acts 7:58). False witness was punished with the same penalty as the offence witnessed to. Withholding witness was penal (Leviticus 5:1). The term martyr, "witness," came to mean in Christian times one who attests the truth by suffering (Acts 22:20; Revelation 2:13; compare Revelation 1:9; Revelation 6:9; Revelation 11:3; Revelation 20:4; Hebrew 11; Hebrews 12:1).