Strong's Hebrew · H5707
עֵד
ʻêd · ayd
witness.
Definition
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
Derivation
contracted from H5749 (עוּד);
Appears 69 times in Scripture
“This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.”
“Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.”
““If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.”
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
“If the animal was torn to pieces, he shall bring it as evidence; he need not make restitution for the torn carcass.”
““Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.”
“If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.””
““You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.”
“Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.””
“by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).