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εὐαγγέλιον
εὐαγγέλιον
Ancient Greek
Noun
εὐαγγέλιον • (euangélion) n (genitive εὐαγγελίου); second declension
- a reward for good news
- good news
- gospel
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ εὐαγγέλιον | τὼ εὐαγγελίω | τᾰ̀ εὐαγγέλιᾰ | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ εὐαγγελίου | τοῖν εὐαγγελίοιν | τῶν εὐαγγελίων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ | τοῖν εὐαγγελίοιν | τοῖς εὐαγγελίοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ εὐαγγέλιον | τὼ εὐαγγελίω | τᾰ̀ εὐαγγέλιᾰ | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εὐαγγέλιον | εὐαγγελίω | εὐαγγέλιᾰ | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- εὐαγγελίζω (euangelízō)
Descendants
- → Arabic: إِنْجِيل (ʾinjīl)
- → Persian: انجیل (enjil)
- → Turkish: İncil
- → Classical Syriac: ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ (ʾewangeliyōn)
- → Parthian:
- Manichaean: ʾwnglywn (ewangelyōn)
- → Sogdian:
- Manichaean: ʾwnglywn (ewangelyōn)
- Christian: ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ (ewangelyōn)
- → Persian: انگلیون (angelyun)
- → Parthian:
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌴𐌻𐌾𐍉 (aiwaggēljō)
- → Latin: evangelium
- → English: evangel
- → Russian: евангелие n (jevángelije)
- → Old English: gōdspel (calque)
- → English: gospel
References
- εὐαγγέλιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- εὐαγγέλιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐαγγέλιον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «εὐαγγέλιον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «εὐαγγέλιον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G2098”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979