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Lexicon :: Strong's G701 - arestos

Aa
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 BoxGen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - And 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 to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - And Aaron spake unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and there have befallen me such things as these: and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of Jehovah?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:25 - Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - when thou shalt hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 - And whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do ye after the will of your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 - So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
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