ʿēd (עֵד) — Hebrew word meaning “witness”

עֵד

ʿēd

witness

Strong's H5707NounHebrewTWOT 1576b

עֵד (ʿēd) is a Hebrew noun meaning witness. It appears 70 times in 15 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5707).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1576b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1576b)witness, reiterating, emphatically affirming; testimony, evidence; recorder, prince

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עֵד noun, masculine: witness, reiterating, emphatically affirming

1.witness, testimony, evidence, of things
2.witness, a person

Strong's H5707 עֵד: concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
KJV:witness.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1576: עוּד ʿûd — return, go about, repeat, do again; surround; restore, relieve; be restored; duplicate, protest, testify, encompass; admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, call to record, rob, solemnly, stand upright, give warning, witness

See it in Scripture

Exodus 20:16 Numbers 5:13 Deuteronomy 5:20

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