(1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thessalonians 1:10).

(2.) The Scriptures, as the revelation of God's will (2 Kings 11:12; Psalm 19:7; 119:88; Isaiah 8:16, 20).

(3.) The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Joshua 22:10).

Testimony, Tabernacle of

The tabernacle, the great glory of which was that it contained "the testimony", i.e., the "two tables" (Exodus 38:21). The ark in which these tables were deposited was called the "ark of the testimony" (40:3), and also simply the "testimony" (27:21; 30:6).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.

2. (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.

3. (n.) Open attestation; profession.

4. (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

5. (n.) The two tables of the law.

6. (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacred Scriptures.

7. (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.