Footnote

b The Greek word marʹtyr, from which the English word “martyr” is derived (“one who bears witness by his death,” An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, by W. E. Vine), actually means “witness” (“one who avers, or can aver, what he himself has seen or heard or knows by any other means,” A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, by J. H. Thayer).