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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.
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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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It occurs, first, in the sense of a person who deposes to the occurrence of any fact, a witness of any event. It means a judicial witness in _{; ; ; (comp. ; ; ; ); ; ; ; ; ; . It is applied, generally, to a person who certifies, or is able to certify, to any fact which has come under his cognizance (; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ). So in allusion to those who witness the public games (). It is also applied to anyone who testifies to the world what God reveals through him (). In the latter sense the Greek word is applied to our Lord (; ). It is further used in the ecclesiastical sense of martyr.}