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# testify

verb (testifies, testified, testifying)

«testify» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To testify is to tell what you know or saw, especially in a court and on oath. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#m1)
2. To testify is to show or prove something: the scars testify to the fight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#m2)

### In the lessons

witnesses who tell what they saw; a story can testify that something happened long ago

### Examples

- The boy was ready to testify in court. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#x1)
- The witnesses testified that they saw the man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#x2)
- The old stones testify to a long history. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah a witness speaks in court, and Moses also "testifies" by warning the people with God's words.

**Interpretation.** The law requires more than one witness for a death sentence, and tradition reads this as protecting against unfair judgment.

### Examples

- Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. (Torah NUM.35.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/testify/#x1)
- he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this law. (Torah DEU.32.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/testify/#x2)
- Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee. (Writings JOB.15.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/testify/#x3)
- Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts. (Prophets AMO.3.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/testify/#x4)
- 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I. (Writings PSA.50.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/testify/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «testify» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/testify/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«testify» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/testify.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «testify» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/testify/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«testify» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/testify.html) on Mova free.