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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 look, I have two daughters who have not [fn]had relations with any man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them [fn]whatever you like; only do not do anything to these men, because 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 - Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; [fn]settle wherever [fn]you please.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 -

Now their words seemed [fn]reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37 -

Now 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 - When Moses heard that, it was good in his sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - So Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the way against me. Now then, if it is displeasing to you, 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 [fn]agreeable with 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 the LORD has commanded regarding the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry [fn]whomever they wish; 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 - “The [fn]plan pleased me, 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 that he chooses in one of your [fn]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 - “And now behold, we are in your hands; do to us as it seems good and right in your sight to do.”

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So when Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, that is, the heads of the [fn]families of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - The word pleased the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel blessed God; and they did not speak of going up against them in battle 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 - “But if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - Then the sons of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned, do to us whatever [fn]seems good to You; only please save 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 he 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 relatives, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” Yet Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she is right [fn]for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - So he went down and talked to the woman; and she [fn]looked pleasing to Samson.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - And the tribe of Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had allowed to live from the women of Jabesh-gilead; but they [fn]were not enough for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke [fn]to Benjamin; and in addition Abner went to speak [fn]to David in Hebron everything that seemed good to Israel and to the entire 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 David’s vow, and it [fn]pleased them, just as everything that the king did [fn]pleased 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 seems best to you 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 -

Now [fn]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 left Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they [fn]did not please him.

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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 so that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard in place of it; if [fn]you prefer, I will give you what [fn]it is worth in money.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4 - So the [fn]decision was right in the sight of the king and all the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21 -

Now this word pleased the king and the officials, and the king did [fn]as Memucan proposed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - “Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen in place of Vashti.” And the [fn]suggestion pleased the king, and he did accordingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and [fn]food, gave her seven choice female attendants from the king’s palace, and transferred her and her attendants 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 [fn]does not satisfy 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 wooden gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet.” And the [fn]advice pleased Haman, so he had the wooden gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 -

May my wife grind grain 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 it will please the LORD better than an ox

Or bull with horns and hoofs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 -

No harm happens to the righteous,

But the wicked are filled with trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18 -

Otherwise, the LORD will see and [fn]be displeased,

And turn His anger away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 -

Truth is lacking,

And one who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.

Now the LORD saw,

And it was [fn]displeasing in His sight 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 spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2 - “I am pleased to declare the signs and miracles that 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 be pleasing to you: wipe away your sin by doing righteousness, and your wrongdoings by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1 -

[fn]It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, to 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 the LORD as in the days of old, and as in former years.
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