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EVANGEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("evangel" is a kind of...):
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Meronyms (parts of "evangel"):
Synoptic Gospels; Synoptics (the first three Gospels which describe events in Christ's life from a similar point of view)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evangel"):
Word of God (the message of the Gospel of Christ)
Instance hyponyms:
Gospel According to Matthew; Matthew (one of the Gospels in the New Testament; includes the Sermon on the Mount)
Gospel According to Mark; Mark (the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament)
Gospel According to Luke; Gospel of Luke; Luke (one of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains details of Jesus's birth and early life)
Gospel According to John; John (the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament)
Holonyms ("evangel" is a part of...):
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Derivation:
evangelical (of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament)
evangelical (relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels)
