To BEAR WITNESS, testify — and the root of MARTYR, a word whose meaning shifted from 'one who testifies' to 'one killed for testifying' in the century after the New Testament. ⚠ It brackets Hebrews 11, occurring five times: the elders were witnessed to (v2), Abel twice (v4), Enoch (v5), and then at v39, the last thing said of them all — in a chapter that ends with people sawn in two. → first discussed at Hebrews 11:2