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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)
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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - Then Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37 - This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:20 - When Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. So now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back home."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Balak said to Balaam, "Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is what the LORD has commanded for Zelophehad's daughters: 'Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father's tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30 - When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders and clan leaders who accompanied him heard the defense of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, they were satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - But the Israelites said to the LORD, "We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and mother said to him, "Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines." But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, because she is the right one for me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - Samson continued on down to Timnah and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Then Abner spoke privately with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36 - All the people noticed this and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did 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, "I will do whatever seems best to you." So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:10 - The Lord was pleased that Solomon made this request.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, I will pay you silver for it."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4 - The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21 - The matter seemed appropriate to the king and the officials. So the king acted on the advice of Memucan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - Let the young woman whom the king finds most attractive become queen in place of Vashti." This seemed like a good idea to the king, so he acted accordingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - This young woman pleased him, and she found favor with him. He quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her rations; he also provided her with the seven specially chosen young women who were from the palace. He then transferred her and her young women to the best quarters in the harem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to 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 - Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented." It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31 - That will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 - The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18 - lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 - Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The LORD watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2 - I am delighted to tell you about the signs and wonders 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. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps your prosperity will be prolonged."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1 - It seemed like a good idea to Darius to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in former times and years past.
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