Bible word study

Euangelion (Strong’s G2098): Meaning in the Bible

Euangelion (εὐαγγέλιον) is the Greek word numbered G2098 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a good message, i.e. the gospel. In the King James Bible it is translated gospel..

• Original wordεὐαγγέλιον
• Transliterationeuangélion
• Pronunciationyoo-ang-ghel'-ee-on
• Strong’s numberG2098
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as G2097;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Euangelion appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Euangelion (G2098) stands behind 77 English renderings in 74 verses across 17 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Romans (10), Philippians (9), Mark (8).

How the King James Bible renders Euangelion, by count

• gospel71 of 77 (92 percent)
• the gospel3 of 77 (4 percent)
• the gospels2 of 77 (3 percent)
• gospels sake1 of 77 (1 percent)

Three places to read Euangelion

• Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
• 1 Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
• Philippians 1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Euangelion in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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