Tyndale

American  

[tin-dl] / ˈtɪn dl /

Or Tindal,

noun

1. William, c1492–1536, English religious reformer, translator of the Bible into English, and martyr.

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Tyndale British  

/ ˈtɪndəl /

noun

1. William. ?1492–1536, English Protestant and humanist, who translated the New Testament (1525), the Pentateuch (1530), and the Book of Jonah (1531) into English. He was burnt at the stake as a heretic

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Example Sentences

The man in question, hiding in Germany, was William Tyndale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

William Tyndale who translated the Bible into English said that he wanted anyone - even a 'lowly plowboy' - to read the scriptures.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2022

Cromwell is also, as Mantel sees him, a closet Protestant, monitoring Luther’s battles with Rome and exchanging secret letters with Tyndale, the English translator of the Bible, about the “brutal truth” of the Scriptures.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Mr. Jewell noted that many Bibles from publishers such as Tyndale, Zondervan and Thomas Nelson are produced overseas in South Korea, India and China.

From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2021

No one man ever made a better translation than Tyndale, which has been followed in many renderings by nearly all the later versions.

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman