Dict: easton - Witness

easton:

Witness @ More than one witness was required in criminal cases kjv@Deuteronomy:17:6 kjv@Deuteronomy:19:15). They were the first to execute the sentence on the condemned kjv@Deuteronomy:13:9 kjv@Deuteronomy:17:7; kjvKings:21:13; kjv@Matthew:27:1; kjv@Acts:7:57-58). False witnesses were liable to punishment kjv@Deuteronomy:19:16-21). It was also an offence to refuse to bear witness kjv@Leviticus:5:1).

Witness of the Spirit @ kjv@Romans:8:16), the consciousness of the gracious operation of the Spirit on the mind, "a certitude of the Spirit's presence and work continually asserted within us", manifested "in his comforting us, his stirring us up to prayer, his reproof of our sins, his drawing us to works of love, to bear testimony before the world," etc.