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Lexicon :: Strong's G700 - areskō

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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.
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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 - Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37 - And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:20 - And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - And Balaam said unto the angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30 - And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spake no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and the children of Gad dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - And the children of Israel said unto Jehovah, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:36 - And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4 - And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:10 - And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:4 - And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:21 - And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with her portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king’s house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 -
Then let my wife grind unto another,
And let others bow down upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31 -
And it will please Jehovah better than an ox,
Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 -
There shall no mischief happen to the righteous;
But the wicked shall be filled with evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:18 -
Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him,
And he turn away his wrath from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:15 - Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:2 - It hath seemed good unto me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:27 - Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:1 - It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
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