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 god +‎ 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 (euangelion, “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
• Asturian: evanxeliu m
• Basque: ebanjelio
• Catalan: evangeli m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 符類福音書

• Danish: evangelium n
• Dutch: evangelie (nl) n
• Faroese: evangelium n
• Finnish: evankeliumi (fi)
• French: évangile (fr) f
• Friulian: vanzeli m
• Galician: evanxeo m
• Georgian: სახარება (saxareba)
• Hebrew: בשורות
• Irish: soiscéal m

  Old Irish: soiscél m, soiscélae n

• Italian: vangelo (it) m
• Latin: evangelium n
• Malay: injil
• Maltese: evanġelju m
• Manx: sushtal m
• Maori: rongopai
• Occitan: evangèli (oc) m
• Polish: Ewangelia f
• Portuguese: evangelho m
• Romanian: evanghelie (ro) f
• Russian: ева́нгелие (ru) n (jevángelije)
• Sardinian: banzelu m, evagnelu m
• Scottish Gaelic: soisgeul
• Sicilian: vancelu m
• Slovak: evanjelium n
• Spanish: evangelio (es) m
• Walloon: evandjîle m

account of the life, death, and teachings of Jesus

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

  Old Irish: soiscél m, soiscélae

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

message expected to have positive reception or effect

• Finnish: ilosanoma (fi)

• Polish: dobra (pl) nowina f

teaching of Divine grace

gospel music — see gospel music

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• Albanian: ungjilli
• Arabic: إنجيل ('injīl)
• Basque: ebanjelio
• Serbo-Croatian: jevanđelje n, evanđelje n
• Bulgarian: евангелие (bg) (evángelie)
• Serbo-Croatian: evànđēlje n
• Dutch: evangelie n
• Georgian: სახარება (saxareba) (sakhareba), ოთხთავი (ot’xt’avi) (otkh-tavi)
• German: Evangelium n (1, 2)
• Hungarian: evangélium (hu)
• Icelandic: guðspjall n
• Indonesian: injil (id)
• Italian: vangelo (it) m

• Japanese: 福音書 (ふくいんしょ, fukuinsho), ゴスペル (gosuperu)
• Latin: evangelium n
• Lithuanian: evangelija (lt) f
• Old Norse: guðspjall n
• Portuguese: evangelho m
• Romanian: evanghelie (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеванђеље n

  Roman: jevanđelje n

• Slovene: vangelij
• Spanish: evangelio (es)
• Welsh: efengyl f

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

Declension of gospel (Kotus type 6/paperi)

		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		gospelille	gospeleille
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)