עֵדʻêd
witness, (probably from reiterating, hence emphatically affirming)
Pronunciation: ayd · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5707
Meanings
1. witness, testimony, evidence, of things (Genesis 31:44; Genesis 31:48; Genesis 31:52)
2. witness, a person
c. witnesses (Jeremiah 32:10; Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 32:25)
Same root
- עוּדʻûwd · H5749to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
- גַּלְעֵדGalʻêd · H1567Galed, a memorial cairn East of the Jordan
- עֵדָהʻêdâh · H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
- עֵדָהʻêdâh · H5713testimony
- עֵדוּתʻêdûwth · H5715testimony
Where it appears
Appears 70 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:44 So come, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and it will be a witness to our commitment.”
- Genesis 31:48 Then Laban declared, “This pile of stones will stand as a witness to remind us of the covenant we have made today.” This explains why it was called Galeed—“Witness Pile.”
- Genesis 31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you marry other wives, God will see it even if no one else does. He is a witness to this covenant between us.
- Genesis 31:52 They stand between us as witnesses of our vows. I will never pass this pile of stones to harm you, and you must never pass these stones or this monument to harm me.
- Exodus 20:16 “You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.
- Exodus 22:13 If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the remains of the carcass must be shown as evidence, and no compensation will be required.
See every passage
- Genesis 31:44, 31:48, 31:50, 31:52
- Exodus 20:16, 22:13, 23:1
- Leviticus 5:1
- Numbers 5:13, 35:30
- Deuteronomy 5:20, 17:6, 17:7, 19:15, 19:16, 19:18, 31:19, 31:21, 31:26
- Joshua 22:27, 22:28, 22:34, 24:22
- Ruth 4:9, 4:10, 4:11
- 1 Samuel 12:5
- Job 10:17, 16:8, 16:19
- Psalms 27:12, 35:11, 89:37
- Proverbs 6:19, 12:17, 14:5, 14:25, 19:5, 19:9, 19:28, 21:28, 24:28, 25:18
- Isaiah 8:2, 19:20, 43:9, 43:10, 43:12, 44:8, 44:9, 55:4
- Jeremiah 29:23, 32:10, 32:12, 32:25, 32:44, 42:5
- Micah 1:2
- Zephaniah 3:8
- Malachi 3:5
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).