gospel

Syllables: gos·pel/ˈɡɒspəl//ˈɡɑspəl/

gospel noun: the first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.

Noun (1)

gospel (countable and uncountable, plural gospels)

The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.
An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles.
- Spreading the gospel of dental hygiene in Vermont1917, Oral Hygiene, volume 7, section title
(uncountable) That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).
- We took her words for gospel.
- If any one thinks this expression hyperbolical, I shall only ask him to read Edipus, instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel.1881, George Saintsbury, Dryden
(uncountable) Gospel music.

Verb

gospel (third-person singular simple present gospels, present participle (US) gospeling or (UK) gospelling, simple past and past participle (US) gospeled or (UK) gospelled)

(transitive) To instruct in, declare, or communicate the gospel; to evangelise.
- Are you so gospelled, to pray for this good man and for his issue, whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave and beggared yours forever?c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- I stood there wondering how often they had “gospeled” each other's hearts like this.2014, Caesar Kalinowski, Small Is Big, Slow Is Fast

Noun (2) capitalized: Gospel

Gospel (plural Gospels)

(alternative) Alternative form of gospel.

gospel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

gospel in Hindi

first section of New Testament: सुसमाचार susamācār, इंजील iñjīl
account of the life, death, and teachings of Jesus: सुसमाचार susamācār, इंजील iñjīl

gospel in Tamil

first section of New Testament: இஞ்சீல் iñcīl

gospel in Marathi

गॉस्पेल, गॉस्पेलिंग, गॉस्पेलला

gospel in Urdu

first section of New Testament: انجیل injīl

More languagesFewer languages

gospel in Bengali: সুসমাচার śuśomacar, গসপেল gośpel, ইঞ্জীল injīl
gospel in Telugu: గోస్పెల్
gospel in Malayalam: സുവിശേഷം suviśēṣaṁ, ഏവൻഗേലിയോൻ ēvaṉgēliyōṉ, ഇഞ്ചീൽ iñcīl, ഇഞ്ജീൽ iñjīl
gospel in Kannada: ಗೋಸ್ಪೆಲ್
gospel in Punjabi: ਇੰਜੀਲ
gospel in Gujarati: ઇંજીલ iñjīl
gospel in Odia: ଗୋସ୍ପେଲ, ଗୋସ୍ପେଲ୍, ଗୋସ୍ପେଲିଂ
gospel in Nepali: गॉस्पेलिङ, गोस्पेलिङ, गोस्पेलिंग
gospel in Pashto: انجيل enǰíl
gospel in Tagalog: ebanghelyo, laygay
gospel in Arabic: إِنْجِيل ʔinjīl
gospel in Malay: injil
gospel in Indonesian: injil
gospel in Thai: พระวรสาร prá-wá-rá-sǎan, พระกิตติคุณ prá-gìt-dtì-kun
gospel in Vietnamese: phúc âm, tin mừng
gospel in Myanmar: ဧဝံဂေလိ ewamgeli.

Examples of gospel in a sentence

The salvifying message of the gospels is central to the Christian faith.
He would simply say he did what the Jesus of the gospels told him to do.
Millions of Americans fell in love with the prosperity gospel and its new kind of preacher.

All 40 example sentences with gospel

Synonyms of gospel

evangel

Forms of gospel

Noun
plural	gospels
plural	Gospels
Verb
third-person singular present	gospels
present participle US	gospeling
present participle UK	gospelling
past participle US	gospeled
past US	gospeled
past participle UK	gospelled
past UK	gospelled

Plural of gospel: gospels

Origin of gospel

From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspell (“gospel”), corresponding to God + spell (“talk, tale, story”), literally “the message of God”, believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”) (English evangel). Compare Old Saxon gōdspel and godspell (“gospel”), Old High German and Middle High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”), and the modern calque Malayalam സുവിശേഷം (suviśēṣaṁ).

From Middle English gospellen, from Old English godspellian (“to preach the gospel, evangelise”), from the noun (see above).

Phrases with gospel

Questions about gospel

What does gospel mean?: Gospel means the first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.
What is gospel in Hindi?: Gospel in Hindi is सुसमाचार (susamācār), इंजील (iñjīl). See Gospel meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gospel?: Gospel can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce gospel?: Gospel is pronounced /ˈɡɒspəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of gospel?: The plural of gospel is gospels.

Words near gospel in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: gospel (page history and authors); Gospel (page history and authors); gospel (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gospel (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gospel (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gospel (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gospel (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gospel (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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