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Lexicon :: Strong's H5707 - ʿēḏ

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עֵד
Transliteration
ʿēḏ
Pronunciation
ayd
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted from עוּד (H5749)
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TWOT Reference: 1576b

Strong’s Definitions

עֵד ʻêd, ayd; contracted from H5749; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince:—witness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x

The KJV translates Strong's H5707 in the following manner: witness (69x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x
The KJV translates Strong's H5707 in the following manner: witness (69x).

  1. witness

    1. witness, testimony, evidence (of things)

    2. witness (of people)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵד ʻêd, ayd; contracted from H5749; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince:—witness.
STRONGS H5707: Abbreviations
עֵד 69 noun masculineDeuteronomy 17:6 witness (probably from reiterating, hence emphatically affirming); — ע׳ absolute Genesis 31:48 +, construct Exodus 20:16 +; suffix עֵדִי Job 16:19; plural עֵדִים Numbers 35:30 +, construct עֵדֵי Psalm 27:12; Psalm 35:11; suffix עֵדַי Isaiah 43:10, 12, etc.; —
† 1. witness, testimony, evidence, of things: heap of stones Genesis 31:44, 48, 52 (JE), torn animal Exodus 22:12 (E), song of Moses Deuteronomy 31:19, 21 (J), law-book Deuteronomy 31:26 (D), witness of י׳ against Israel; altar east of Jordan, with בֵּין, Joshua 22:27, 28, 34 (P), compare Isaiah 19:20; Job's evil condition Job 16:8; the moon Psalm 89:38.
2. witness, a person:
† a. God, in heaven for Job Job 16:19; on earth, for Samuel 1 Samuel 12:5 (twice in verse) + 1 Samuel 12:6 Greek Version of the LXX Th and most, Jeremiah Jeremiah 42:5; see also 1 Samuel 20:12 (insert עֵד before י׳ Syriac Version Dr Bu Kit Löhr HPS); against persons Jeremiah 29:23; Malachi 3:5, nations Micah 1:2; between (בֵּין persons Genesis 31:50 (E).
b. Davidic dyn., to nations Isaiah 55:4.
c. witnesses, of transfer of property Jeremiah 32:10, 12, 25, 44, betrothal Ruth 4:9, 10, 11; usually of testimony in court, and in civil and social relations, with בְּ against, Numbers 5:13; Joshua 24:22; 1 Samuel 12:5 +, with קום rise up against Psalm 27:12; Psalm 35:11; † עָנָה עֵד שֶׁקֶר בְּ answer (in court) as a false witness against Exodus 20:16 = עֵד שָׁוְא Deuteronomy 5:17; Proverbs 25:18; † לְפִי עֵדִים Numbers 35:30 (P); † עֵדִ(ים) עַל־פִּי Deuteronomy 17:6 (twice in verse) at the mouth of witnesses, so Deuteronomy 19:15 (twice in verse). — False witness is שֶׁקֶר ע׳ Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 19:18 (twice in verse); Psalm 27:12; Proverbs 6:19; Proverbs 14:5; שְׁקָרִים ע׳ Proverbs 12:17; Proverbs 19:5, 9; כְּזָבִים ע׳ Proverbs 21:28; חִנָּם ע׳ Proverbs 24:28; בְּלִיַּעַל ע׳ Proverbs 19:28; חָמָס ע׳ witness of (i.e. supporting) violence Exodus 23:1 (E) Deuteronomy 19:16; Psalm 35:11. Faithful witness is אֱמוּנִים ע׳ Proverbs 14:5; אֱמֶת ע׳ Jeremiah 42:5; Proverbs 14:25.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7717.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:44; 31:48; 31:48; 31:50; 31:52

Exodus

20:16; 20:16; 20:16; 22:12; 23:1

Numbers

5:13; 35:30; 35:30

Deuteronomy

5:17; 17:6; 17:6; 19:15; 19:16; 19:18; 31:19; 31:21; 31:26

Joshua

22:27; 22:28; 22:34; 24:22

Ruth

4:9; 4:10; 4:11

1 Samuel

12:5; 12:5; 12:6; 20:12

Job

16:8; 16:19; 16:19

Psalms

27:12; 27:12; 27:12; 35:11; 35:11; 35:11; 89:38

Proverbs

6:19; 12:17; 14:5; 14:5; 14:25; 19:5; 19:9; 19:28; 21:28; 24:28; 25:18

Isaiah

19:20; 43:10; 43:12; 55:4

Jeremiah

29:23; 32:10; 32:12; 32:25; 32:44; 42:5; 42:5

Micah

1:2

Malachi

3:5

H5707

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5707 matches the Hebrew עֵד (ʿēḏ),
which occurs 70 times in 60 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:44–Isa 44:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was called Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50 - If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:16 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:13 - If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - “ ‘If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30 - “ ‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6 - On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:7 - The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 - One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:16 - If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 - “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And when many disasters and calamities come on them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:26 - “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:27 - On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:28 - “And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the LORD’s altar, which our ancestors built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:34 - And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us—that the LORD is God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:5 - Samuel said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is witness,” they said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:17 - You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:8 - You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:12 - Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:11 - Ruthless witnesses come forward; they question me on things I know nothing about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:37

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:37 - it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:19 - a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:17 - An honest witness tells the truth, but a false witness tells lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:5 - An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:25 - A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is deceitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:5 - A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:9 - A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:28 - A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:28 - A false witness will perish, but a careful listener will testify successfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:28 - Do not testify against your neighbor without cause— would you use your lips to mislead?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 - Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2 - So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:20 - It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 - All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:10 - “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:12 - I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:8 - Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”

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