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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 Box Gen 3:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your [fn]power; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - But Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - “You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well for you and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 -

“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, everyone 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, so that it may go well for you and your sons after you, since you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 -

“Be careful and listen to all these words which I am commanding you, so that it may go well for you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing 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 - [fn]if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, [fn]keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, [fn]and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - “So you shall remove the guilt for innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes 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 brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do 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; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 -

“So their sons entered and took possession of the land.

And You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,

And You handed them over to them, with their kings and the peoples of the land,

To do with them [fn]as they desired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 -

“And its abundant produce is for the kings

Whom You have set over us because of our sins;

They also rule over our bodies

And over our cattle as they please,

So 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 preferred by the LORD more than sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Please, LORD, just remember how I have walked before You wholeheartedly and in truth, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept [fn]profusely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have followed the stubbornness of their heart and the Baals, [fn]as their fathers taught them,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - ‘You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, each one of you is following the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - “But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will [fn]persist in the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
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