gospel

See also: Gospel

§English

Wikipedia

§Etymology

From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspel (“gospel, glad tidings; one of the four gospels”), corresponding to good +‎ spell (“talk, tale, story”), believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annuntiatio, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin evangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”). Compare Old Saxon godspel, godspell (“gospel”), Old High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”).

§Noun

gospel (plural gospels)

1. The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the life, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus.
2. An account of the life, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
3. A message expected to have positive reception or effect.
4. (Protestantism) the teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments
5. (uncountable) gospel music
6. (uncountable) That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).
   • Saintsbury

     If any one thinks this expression hyperbolical, I shall only ask him to read Oedipus, instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel.

§Synonyms

• evangel

§Translations

first section of New Testament

• Albanian: ungjill m
• Arabic: إِنجِيل (ʾinjīl)
• Aramaic: אונגליון
• Asturian: evanxeliu m
• Basque: ebanjelio
• Bulgarian: ева́нгелие (bg) (evángelie)
• Catalan: evangeli m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 福音書, 福音书 (fuk¹ jam¹ syu¹)

  Mandarin: 福音書, 福音书 (zh) (fúyīnshū)

• Classical Syriac: ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ
• Czech: evangelium n
• Danish: evangelium n
• Dutch: evangelie (nl) n
• Esperanto: evangelio (eo)
• Faroese: evangelium n
• Finnish: evankeliumi (fi)
• French: évangile (fr) f
• Friulian: vanzeli m
• Galician: evanxeo m
• German: Evangelium n
• Georgian: სახარება (saxareba)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion)

• Hebrew: בשורות
• Hiligaynon: ebanhelyo
• Hindi: इंजील (iñjīl)
• Hungarian: evangélium
• Icelandic: guðspjall n
• Indonesian: injil
• Irish: soiscéal m

  Old Irish: soiscél m, soiscélae n

• Istriot: vanzeîlio m
• Italian: vangelo (it) m
• Japanese: 福音書 (ふくいんしょ, fukuinsho)
• Latin: evangelium n
• Lithuanian: evangelija f
• Malagasy: filazantsara
• Malay: injil
• Maltese: evanġelju m
• Manx: sushtal m
• Maori: rongopai
• Occitan: evangèli (oc) m
• Old Norse: guðspjall n
• Polish: ewangelia f
• Portuguese: evangelho m
• Romanian: evanghelie (ro) f
• Russian: ева́нгелие (ru) n (jevángelije)
• Sardinian: banzelu m, evagnelu m
• Scottish Gaelic: soisgeul
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеванђеље n, ева̀нђе̄ље n

  Roman: jevanđelje n, ^{(please verify)} evànđēlje n

• Sicilian: vancelu m
• Slovak: evanjelium n
• Slovene: vangelij
• Spanish: evangelio (es) m
• Swedish: evangelium (sv) n
• Venetian: vangeło m
• Walloon: evandjîle m
• Welsh: efengyl f

account of the life, death, and teachings of Jesus

• Czech: evangelium n
• Finnish: evankeliumi (fi)
• French: évangile (fr) f
• German: Evangelium n
• Hindi: इंजील (iñjīl)
• Irish: soiscéal m

  Old Irish: soiscél m, soiscélae

• Manx: sushtal m
• Maori: rongopai
• Polish: ewangelia (pl) f
• Portuguese: evangelho m
• Russian: ева́нгелие (ru) n (jevángelije)
• Scottish Gaelic: soisgeul
• Slovak: evanjelium n
• Swedish: evangelium (sv) n

message expected to have positive reception or effect

• Finnish: ilosanoma (fi)

• Polish: ^{(please verify)} dobra nowina f

teaching of Divine grace

gospel music — see gospel music

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ოთხთავი (ot’xt’avi)

• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ゴスペル (gosuperu)

§Verb

gospel (third-person singular simple present gospels, present participle gospelling, simple past and past participle gospelled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To instruct in the gospel.

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§Finnish

§Noun

gospel

1. (music) gospel

§Declension

Inflection of gospel (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

		singular	plural
nominative		gospel	gospelit
accusative	nom.?	gospel	gospelit
	gen.	gospelin
genitive		gospelin	gospelien gospeleiden gospeleitten
partitive		gospelia	gospeleita gospeleja
inessive		gospelissa	gospeleissa
elative		gospelista	gospeleista
illative		gospeliin	gospeleihin
adessive		gospelilla	gospeleilla
ablative		gospelilta	gospeleilta
allative		gospelilleˣ	gospeleilleˣ
essive		gospelina	gospeleina
translative		gospeliksi	gospeleiksi
instructive		—	gospelein
abessive		gospelitta	gospeleitta
comitative		—	gospeleineen

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§Italian

§Etymology

English

§Noun

gospel m (invariable)

1. (music) gospel (style of music)