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Lexicon :: Strong's G700 - areskō

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ἀρέσκω
Transliteration
areskō (Key)
Pronunciation
ar-es'-ko
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from αἴρω (G142) (through the idea of exciting emotion)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:455,77

Strong’s Definitions

ἀρέσκω aréskō, ar-es'-ko; probably from G142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so):—please.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G700 in the following manner: please (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G700 in the following manner: please (17x).

  1. to please

  2. to strive to please

    1. to accommodate one's self to the opinions desires and interests of others

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀρέσκω aréskō, ar-es'-ko; probably from G142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so):—please.
STRONGS G700:
ἀρέσκω; imperfect ἤρεσκον; future ἀρέσω; 1 aorist ἤρεσα; (ΑΡΩ [see ἄρα at the beginning]); [from Homer down];
a. to please: τινί, Matthew 14:6; Mark 6:22; Romans 8:8; Romans 15:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 7:32-34; Galatians 1:10; 2 Timothy 2:4; ἐνώπιόν τινος, after the Hebrew בְּעֵינֵי, Acts 6:5 (1 Kings 3:10; Genesis 34:18, etc.).
b. to strive to please; to accommodate oneself to the opinions, desires, interests of others: τινί, 1 Corinthians 10:33 (πάντα πᾶσιν ἀρέσκω); 1 Thessalonians 2:4. ἀρέσκειν ἑαυτῷ, to please oneself and therefore to have an eye to one's own interests: Romans 15:1, 3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
34:18
1 Kings
3:10
Matthew
14:6
Mark
6:22
Acts
6:5
Romans
8:8; 15:1; 15:2; 15:3
1 Corinthians
7:32; 7:33; 7:34; 10:33
Galatians
1:10
1 Thessalonians
2:4; 2:15; 4:1
2 Timothy
2:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G700 matches the Greek ἀρέσκω (areskō),
which occurs 42 times in 41 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - “Now behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them what is good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the [fn]shelter of my roof.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; [fn]settle wherever it is good in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 -

Now their words seemed good in the sight of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37 - And the [fn]proposal seemed good [fn]to Pharaoh and [fn]to all his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:20 - So Moses heard this, and it was good in his sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - And Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the way against me. So now, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 -

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be right in the eyes of God that you curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - “This is [fn]what Yahweh has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry whoever is good in their sight; only they must marry within the family of the tribe of their father.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - “And the thing was good in my sight, and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - “He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your gates of the towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - “So now, behold, we are in your hands; do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:30

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So Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke. And it was good in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - And the word was good in the sight of the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel blessed God; and they did not speak of going up against them in war to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - “If it is evil in your sight to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - Then the sons of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned, so You, do to us whatever seems good in Your eyes; only please deliver us this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 -

Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your [fn]relatives, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - So he went down and spoke to the woman; and she was right in the eyes of Samson.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - Then Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead; yet they did not find [fn]enough for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke in the hearing of Benjamin; and in addition Abner went to speak in the hearing of David in Hebron all that was good in the sight of Israel and in the sight of the whole house of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36 - Now all the people took note of it, and it was good in their sight, just as everything the king did was good in the sight of all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4 - Then the king said to them, “Whatever is good in your sight I will do.” So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and thousands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:10 -

[fn]And it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if it is good in your sight, I will give you the price of [fn]it in money.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4 - Thus the thing was right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21 -

And this word was good in the eyes of the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - “Then let the young lady who is good in the eyes of the king be queen in place of Vashti.” And the word was good in the eyes of the king, and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - And the young lady was good in his eyes, and she advanced in lovingkindness before him. So he hurried to give her cosmetics and portions of food to her, and to give to her seven choice young women from the king’s [fn]house. And he transferred her and her young women to the best place in the harem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - “Yet all of this is worth nothing to me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a [fn]gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it; then go gladly with the king to the feast.” And the word was good to Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 -

May my wife grind for another,

And let others [fn]kneel down over her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31 -

And this will please Yahweh better than an ox

Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 -

No misfortune befalls the righteous,

But the wicked are filled with calamity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18 -

Lest Yahweh see it and it be evil in His eyes,

And turn His anger away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 -

So it is that truth is missing;

And he who turns aside from evil makes himself plunder.

Then Yahweh saw,

And it was evil in His eyes that there was no justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - But the vessel that he was making of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, so he turned around and made it into another vessel, according to what was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2 - “It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:27 - ‘Therefore, O king, may my advice seem good to you: [fn]break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1 -

[fn]It seemed good to Darius that he set 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - “Then the [fn]offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Yahweh as in the ancient days and as in former years.
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