beloved disciple
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And the beloved''' Disciple fell down as dead at the appearance of Christ in his Glory."
- "The idea of the almost immediate return of Christ to judgment still so far retains its force that the Beloved Disciple is represented as probably living to see it […]"
- "The question of the identification of the Beloved Disciple and that of the discovery of the author of the Gospel are not necessarily identical, for it is quite possible to argue, as we found Schmiedel doing just now, that the two were separate and distinct persons."
Etymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin discipulus dīlēctus, applied as an epithet of John the Evangelist. The term is a summary of the expressions found in the Gospel itself, such as ὁ μαθητὴς ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς (ho mathētḕs hòn ēgápa ho Iēsoûs, “the disciple whom Jesus loved”).
Inflected Forms
the Beloved Disciple (canonical)