of uncertain affinity; a witness (literally (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case)); by analogy, a "martyr":—martyr, record, witness.
Outline
- a witness
- in a legal sense
- an historical sense
- one who is a spectator of anything, e.g. of a contest
- in an ethical sense
- those who after his example have proved the strength and genuineness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a violent death