Lexicon :: Strong's H5707 - ʿēḏ

“Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”

Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed

“If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”

“This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“If it was actually torn apart by a wild animal, he is to bring it as evidence; he does not have to make restitution for the torn carcass.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he will bear his iniquity.

“and sleeps with another,[fn] but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.

“Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

“The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness.

“One witness cannot establish any iniquity or sin against a person, whatever that person has done. A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

“The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

“Therefore write down this song for yourselves and teach it to the Israelites; have them sing it,[fn] so that this song may be a witness for me against the Israelites.

“And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because[fn] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,[fn] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

“Instead, it is to be a witness between us and you, and between the generations after us, so that we may carry out the worship of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings. Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no share in the LORD! ’

So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar: It[fn] is a witness between us that the LORD is God.

Joshua then told the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen to worship the LORD.”

“We are witnesses,” they said.

Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

He said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything in my hand.”

“He is a witness,” they said.

“You produce new witnesses[fn] against me

and multiply your anger toward me.

Hardships assault me, wave after wave.[fn]

You have shriveled me up[fn] ​— ​it has become a witness;

my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

Even now my witness is in heaven,

and my advocate is in the heights!

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,

for false witnesses rise up against me,

breathing violence.

Malicious witnesses come forward;

they question me about things I do not know.

“like the moon, established forever,

a faithful witness in the sky.”Selah

a lying witness who gives false testimony,

and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right,

but a false witness speaks deceit.

An honest witness does not deceive,

but a dishonest witness utters lies.

A truthful witness rescues lives,

but one who utters lies is deceitful.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies will not escape.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies perishes.

A worthless witness mocks justice,

and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.

A lying witness will perish,

but the one who listens will speak successfully.

Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.

Don’t deceive with your lips.

A person giving false testimony against his neighbor

is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

“I have appointed[fn] trustworthy witnesses ​— ​the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.”

It will be a sign and witness to the LORD of Armies in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and leader, and he will rescue them.

Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence

and inscribe it on a scroll;

it will be for the future,

forever and ever.

All the nations are gathered together,

and the peoples are assembled.

Who among them can declare this,

and tell us the former things?

Let them present their witnesses

to vindicate themselves,

so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”

“I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed —

and not some foreign god[fn] among you.

So you are my witnesses” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“and[fn] I am God.

Do not be startled or afraid.

Have I not told you and declared it long ago?

You are my witnesses!

Is there any God but me?

There is no other Rock; I do not know any.