noun · masculine
euangelistos
Strong’sG2099
an evangelist, bearer of good tidings
stem euangelist-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† εὐαγγελιστής, -οῦ, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2099 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-ang-ghel-is-tace'
a preacher of the gospel
Fromfrom G2097;
King Jamesevangelist.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
bringer of good tidings: hence, evangelist, preacher of the gospel, NT
II proclaimer of oracular messages, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | euangelistos | euangelistois |
| object accusative | euangeliston | euangelistoin1×εὐαγγελιστάς |
| direct address vocative | euangelistor | euangelistoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | euangelistou2×εὐαγγελιστοῦ | euangelistoiu |
| to, for dative | euangelisto | euangelistoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
euangelisto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
euangelistou“evangelist”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 21:8… eisercharantois eis ton oikon Filippou tou euangelistou arōntou ek toiu hepta menana para …… at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.
2 Timothy 4:5… nēfasōr en pantei, kakopathasar, ergem poiasar euangelistou, tan diakonian su plēroforasar.… hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
euangelistoin“evangelists”objectaccusative plural1×
Ephesians 4:11… apostoloin, toin de profētoin, toin de euangelistoin, toin de poimenoin kai didaskaloin,… to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and …