- Transliteration: Martus

- Phonetic: mar'-toos

- Definition:

1. a witness

a. in a legal sense

b. an historical sense

1. one who is a spectator of anything, e.g. of a contest

c. in an ethical sense

1. those who after his example have proved the strength and genuineness of their faith in Christ by undergoing a violent death

- Origin: of uncertain affinity

- TDNT entry: 11:54,6

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: Of uncertain affinity; a witness (literally [judicially] or figuratively [generally]); by analogy a martyr: - martyr record witness.