The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as “witness” in English is translated in these ways:

• “truly have seen” in Highland Popoluca
• “telling the truth regarding something” in Eastern Highland Otomi
• “know something” in Lalana Chinantec
• “verily know something to be the truth” in San Mateo del Mar Huave
• “we ourselves saw this” in Desano
• “tell the truth about something” in Eastern Highland Otomi
• “know something is true because of seeing it” in Teutila Cuicatec (source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
• “ones who will confirm that these-things that you have seen are true” in Kankanaey (source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• “ones who are to testify about these things, because it all happened before your eyes” in Tagbanwa (source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)