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Lexicon :: Strong's G701 - arestos

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ἀρεστός
Transliteration
arestos (Key)
Pronunciation
ar-es-tos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
4x in 2 unique form(s) TR
4x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
19x in 3 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:456,77

Strong’s Definitions

ἀρεστός arestós, ar-es-tos'; from G700; agreeable; by implication, fit:—(things that) please(-ing), reason.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G701 in the following manner: those things that please (1x), reason (1x), please (with G2076) (1x), those things that are pleasing (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G701 in the following manner: those things that please (1x), reason (1x), please (with G2076) (1x), those things that are pleasing (1x).

  1. pleasing, agreeable

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀρεστός arestós, ar-es-tos'; from G700; agreeable; by implication, fit:—(things that) please(-ing), reason.
STRONGS G701:
ἀρεστός, -ή, -όν, (ἀρέσκω), pleasing, agreeable: τινί, John 8:29; Acts 12:3; ἐνώπιόν τινος, 1 John 3:22 (cf. ἀρέσκω, a.); ἄρεστόν ἐστι followed by an accusative with an infinitive it is fit, Acts 6:2 [yet cf. Meyer at the passage]. (In Greek writings from [Sophocles] Herodotus down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
8:29
Acts
6:2; 12:3
1 John
3:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G701 matches the Greek ἀρεστός (arestos),
which occurs 19 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - So Abram said to Sarai, “Indeed your maid is in your hand; do to her as you please.” And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - And Aaron said to Moses, “Look, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - “And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - “You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - “Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - “because you have listened to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - “So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 - And whatever seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do it according to the will of your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - “Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 - So the people went in
And possessed the land;
You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land,
The Canaanites,
And gave them into their hands,
With their kings
And the people of the land,
That they might do with them as they wished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - And it yields much increase to the kings
You have set over us,
Because of our sins;
Also they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle
At their pleasure;
And we are in great distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:3 - To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - “but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - ‘And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - And they said, “That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart.”
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