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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)
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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 BoxGen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hands, use her as it may seem good to thee. And Sara afflicted her, and she fled from her face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and said, If thou wilt indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do things pleasing before him, and wilt hearken to his commands, and keep all his ordinances, no disease which I have brought upon the Egyptians will I bring upon thee, for I am the Lord thy God that heals thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - And Aaron spoke to Moses, saying, If they have brought nigh to-day their sin-offerings, and their whole-burnt-offerings before the Lord, and these events have happened to me, and yet I should eat to-day of the sin-offerings, would it be pleasing to the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - Ye shall not do altogether as we do here to-day, every man that which is pleasing in his own sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, if thou shalt do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Beware and hearken, and thou shalt do all the commands which I charge thee, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons for ever, if thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - (LXX 13:19) if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, all that I charge thee this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you, if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 - And whatever it shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do as it is pleasing to your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do that which is pleasing in his sight: and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the strange wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 - And they inherited it: and thou didst destroy from before them the dwellers in the land of the Chananites, and thou gavest into their hands them and their kings, and the nations of the land, to do unto them as it pleased them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - and its produce is abundant for the kings whom thou didst appoint over us because of our sins; and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:3 - To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - (LXX 9:13) but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - (and ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
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