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It has several meanings; this is taken from Vines Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words:
Witness (Noun and Verb) [Noun]
martus or martur (whence Eng., "martyr," one who bears "witness" by his death) denotes "one who can or does aver what he has seen or heard or knows;" it is used(a) of God, Rom_1:9; 2_Cor_1:23; Php_1:8; 1_Thess_2:5,10 (2nd part);
(b) of Christ, Rev_1:5; Rev_3:14;
(c) of those who "witness" for Christ by their death, Acts_22:20; Rev_2:13; Rev_17:6;
(d) of the interpreters of God's counsels, yet to "witness" in Jerusalem in the times of the Antichrist, Rev_11:3;
(e) in a forensic sense, Matt_18:16; Matt_26:65; Mark_14:63; Acts_6:13; Acts_7:58; 2_Cor_13:1; 1_Tim_5:19; Heb_10:28;
(f) in a historical sense, Luke_11:48; Luke_24:48; Acts_1:8,22; Acts_2:32; Acts_3:15; Acts_5:32; Acts_10:39,41; Acts_13:31; Acts_22:15; Acts_26:16; 1_Thess_2:10 (1st part); 1_Tim_6:12; 2_Tim_2:2; Heb_12:1, "(a cloud) of witnesses," here of those mentioned in Heb_11, those whose lives and actions testified to the worth and effect of faith, and whose faith received "witness" in Scripture; 1_Pet_5:1.
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