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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 BoxGen 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelek said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37 - The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me 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 BoxNum 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is what the LORD commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father’s tribal clan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - We are now in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30 - When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community—the heads of the clans of the Israelites—heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - His father and mother replied, “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole tribe of Benjamin wanted to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36 - All the people took note and were pleased; indeed, everything the king did pleased them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4 - The king answered, “I will do whatever seems best to you.” So the king stood beside the gate while all his men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:10 - The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4 - The plan seemed right both to the king and to the whole assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21 - The king and his nobles were pleased with this advice, so the king did as Memukan proposed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - She pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,[fn] and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 - No harm overtakes the righteous, but the wicked have their fill of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18 - or the LORD will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 - Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2 - It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:27 - Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1 - It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the LORD, as in days gone by, as in former years.
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