Strong G700ἀρέσκω
to please
- Transliteration
- areskō
- Pronunciation
- ar-es'-ko
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Probably from G142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication to seek to be so): - please.
Detailed definition
ἀρέσκω
[in LXX chiefly for טוֹב;]
1. to please (Hom., Hdt., al.): with dative of person(s), Mat.14:6, Mrk.6:22, Rom.8:8 15:2, 1Th.2:15 4:1, 1Co.7:32-34 Gal.1:10, 2Ti.2:4; before ἐνώπισν (= Heb. בּעֵנֵי, Bl., § 37, 1; 40, 7), Ac 65.
2. In late Gk., esp. in Inscr., to render service to (see M, Th., ICC, 1 Co., ll with; Cremer, 640 f.); Rom.15:1, 3, 1Co.10:33, 1Th.2:4.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for טוֹב;]
1. to please (Hom., Hdt., al.): with dative of person(s), Mat.14:6, Mrk.6:22, Rom.8:8 15:2, 1Th.2:15 4:1, 1Co.7:32-34 Gal.1:10, 2Ti.2:4; before ἐνώπισν (= Heb. בּעֵנֵי, Bl., § 37, 1; 40, 7), Ac 65.
2. In late Gk., esp. in Inscr., to render service to (see M, Th., ICC, 1 Co., ll with; Cremer, 640 f.); Rom.15:1, 3, 1Co.10:33, 1Th.2:4.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G700 appears in 16 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- please15
- i1
- let1
- pleasing1
First verses
- Matthew 14:6But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
- Mark 6:22And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
- Acts 6:5And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
- Romans 8:8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Romans 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- Romans 15:2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
- Romans 15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
- 1 Corinthians 7:32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
- 1 Corinthians 7:33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 10:33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
- Galatians 1:10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
- 2 Timothy 2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀρέσκω [ᾰ],
imperfect ἤρεσκον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37, etc.)]: future ἀρέσω[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.33, _Epic dialect_ ἀρέσσω)] (συν-) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.901)]: aorist ἤρεσα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.19, “Comica Adespota” 19.4 D)]., etc., Epic dialect ἄρεσσα[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.301)], infinitive ἀρέσαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)]: perfect ἀρήρεκα[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 24, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.238)]:—middle, future ἀρέσομαι[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 655 (Lyric poetry))], Epic dialect ἀρέσσομαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.362:)]aorist ἠρεσάμην, Epic dialect ἀρ-[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 255)], Epic dialect participle ἀρεσσάμενος[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.112, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 762)]: aorist passive in middle sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 500)]:—passive, aorist ἠρέσθην[Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.13.8, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.9.6.)]
I of person only, make good, make amends, ἂψ ἐθέλω ἀρέσαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.120)]:—middle, ταῦτα δ᾽ ὄπισθεν ἀρεσσόμεθ᾽ εἴ τι κακὸν νῦν εἴρηται[Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.362, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.55, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.377, 9.510)]; σπονδὰς θεοῖς ἀρέσασθαι make full drink-offerings to the gods, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus [prev. cited])]
I.2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] also frequently in middle, with accusative person et dative modi, appease, conciliate, αὐτὸν ἀρεσσάσθω ἐπέεσσι καὶ δώρῳ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.396)]; τὸν ξεῖνον ἀρέσσομαι ὡς σὺ κελεύεις[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 402; ὥς κέν μιν ἀρεσσάμενοι πεπίθωμεν δώροισι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.112, compare 19.179; καθαροῖσι βωμοῖς θεοὺς ἀρέσονται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 655; καί σε φίλως θυέεσσιν ἀρέσσατο 3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 11)]: with genitive _of things_, ἀρέσαντο φρένας αἵματος they sated their heart with blood, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 255.)]
I.3 after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], with dative person, please, satisfy, οὔτε γάρ μοι Πολυκράτης ἤρεσκε δεσπόζων.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142; δεῖ μ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κάτω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 75, compare 89)]; ἀεὶ δ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κρατοῦσιν to be obsequious to them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 93, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.11)]; ἀ. τρόποις τινός conform to his ways, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.19; τὸ κολακεύειν νῦν ἀρέσκειν ὄνομ᾽ ἔχει 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 42; πᾶσιν ἀρέσκω NT.1Cor.10.33; ἑαυτοῖς NT.Rom.15.1)]:—middle, μάλιστα ἠρέσκοντό [οἱ] οἱ ἀπ᾽ Ἀθηνέων pleased him most, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.128.)]
II of things, with dative person, please, εἴ τοι ἀρέσκει τὰ ἐγὼ λέγω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.89; κάρτα οἱ ἤρεσε ἡ ὑποθήκη [prev. author] 8.58, compare 3.40, 6.22; τῷ τοῦτ᾽ ἤρεσε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 409; σοὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἀρέσκει [prev. author] “Ant.” 211, etc.)]; τοῖς.. πρέσβεσιν ἤρεσκεν [the proposal] pleased them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157d, +others: also in)]aorist passive, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ (i.e. μηδὲν τῶν σῶν λόγων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 500.)]
III with accusative person, οὐ γάρ μ᾽ ἀρέσκει γλῶσσά σου τεθηγμένη[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 584; οὐδέ σ᾽ ἀρέσκει τὸ παρόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 185 (Lyric poetry), compare “Or.” 210; τουτὶ.. μ᾽ οὐκ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 353, compare “Ach.” 189, “Ra.” 103, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.128; πότερός σε ὁ τρόπος ἀ.; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 433e, compare 391c, “R.” 557b, “Tht.” 172d)]: hence in passive, to be pleased, satisfied, οὐκ ἠρέσκετο λειπομένου Μαρδονίου ὑπὸ βασιλέος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.66)]; τῇ κρίσι with the decision, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.34; διαίτῃ Σκυθικῇ [prev. author] 4.78; τοῖς λόγοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, compare 2.68; τῇ σῇ συνουσίᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theages” 127b)]; later in aorist, ἠρέσθη τῇ γνώμῃ[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus [same place], +others; ἀρεσθεὶς τῷ πώματι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta [prev. cited])]
IV ἀρέσκει is used impersonal to express the opinion or resolution of a public body, ταῦτα ἤρεσέ σφι ποιέειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.19; ἢν δ᾽ ἀρέσκῃ ταῦτ᾽ Ἀθηναίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1311)]; ἀρέσκει.. εἶναι Δελφῶν it is resolved that.., [Refs (“SIG” 827 D 10)]; also of prevailing opinions, ἀρέσκει περὶ τρίψεως παραγγέλλοντας.. writers on massage lay down the rule that.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.96)]; τὰ ἀρέσκοντα the dogmas of philosophers, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.448a, 1006d, etc.)]:—middle, ἐξεῖναι παρ᾽ ὁποτέρους ἂν ἀρέσκηται ἐλθεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.35.)]
V participle ἀρέσκων, ουσα, ον, grateful, acceptable, ὅσοις τάδ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀρέσκονθ᾽[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 274; μηδὲν ἀρέσκον λέγειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.34; ἀρέσκοντας ὑμῖν λόγους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.5.)]
V.2 of persons, acceptable, τὸν ἀρέσκοντα αὑτῷ προσλαμβάνειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 951e; τῇ πόλει ἀ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.13. (Cognate with ἀραρίσκω.))]
imperfect ἤρεσκον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37, etc.)]: future ἀρέσω[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.33, _Epic dialect_ ἀρέσσω)] (συν-) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.901)]: aorist ἤρεσα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.19, “Comica Adespota” 19.4 D)]., etc., Epic dialect ἄρεσσα[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.301)], infinitive ἀρέσαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)]: perfect ἀρήρεκα[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 24, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.238)]:—middle, future ἀρέσομαι[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 655 (Lyric poetry))], Epic dialect ἀρέσσομαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.362:)]aorist ἠρεσάμην, Epic dialect ἀρ-[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 255)], Epic dialect participle ἀρεσσάμενος[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.112, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 762)]: aorist passive in middle sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 500)]:—passive, aorist ἠρέσθην[Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.13.8, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.9.6.)]
I of person only, make good, make amends, ἂψ ἐθέλω ἀρέσαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.120)]:—middle, ταῦτα δ᾽ ὄπισθεν ἀρεσσόμεθ᾽ εἴ τι κακὸν νῦν εἴρηται[Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.362, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.55, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.377, 9.510)]; σπονδὰς θεοῖς ἀρέσασθαι make full drink-offerings to the gods, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus [prev. cited])]
I.2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] also frequently in middle, with accusative person et dative modi, appease, conciliate, αὐτὸν ἀρεσσάσθω ἐπέεσσι καὶ δώρῳ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.396)]; τὸν ξεῖνον ἀρέσσομαι ὡς σὺ κελεύεις[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 402; ὥς κέν μιν ἀρεσσάμενοι πεπίθωμεν δώροισι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.112, compare 19.179; καθαροῖσι βωμοῖς θεοὺς ἀρέσονται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 655; καί σε φίλως θυέεσσιν ἀρέσσατο 3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 11)]: with genitive _of things_, ἀρέσαντο φρένας αἵματος they sated their heart with blood, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 255.)]
I.3 after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], with dative person, please, satisfy, οὔτε γάρ μοι Πολυκράτης ἤρεσκε δεσπόζων.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142; δεῖ μ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κάτω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 75, compare 89)]; ἀεὶ δ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κρατοῦσιν to be obsequious to them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 93, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.11)]; ἀ. τρόποις τινός conform to his ways, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.19; τὸ κολακεύειν νῦν ἀρέσκειν ὄνομ᾽ ἔχει 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 42; πᾶσιν ἀρέσκω NT.1Cor.10.33; ἑαυτοῖς NT.Rom.15.1)]:—middle, μάλιστα ἠρέσκοντό [οἱ] οἱ ἀπ᾽ Ἀθηνέων pleased him most, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.128.)]
II of things, with dative person, please, εἴ τοι ἀρέσκει τὰ ἐγὼ λέγω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.89; κάρτα οἱ ἤρεσε ἡ ὑποθήκη [prev. author] 8.58, compare 3.40, 6.22; τῷ τοῦτ᾽ ἤρεσε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 409; σοὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἀρέσκει [prev. author] “Ant.” 211, etc.)]; τοῖς.. πρέσβεσιν ἤρεσκεν [the proposal] pleased them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157d, +others: also in)]aorist passive, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ (i.e. μηδὲν τῶν σῶν λόγων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 500.)]
III with accusative person, οὐ γάρ μ᾽ ἀρέσκει γλῶσσά σου τεθηγμένη[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 584; οὐδέ σ᾽ ἀρέσκει τὸ παρόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 185 (Lyric poetry), compare “Or.” 210; τουτὶ.. μ᾽ οὐκ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 353, compare “Ach.” 189, “Ra.” 103, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.128; πότερός σε ὁ τρόπος ἀ.; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 433e, compare 391c, “R.” 557b, “Tht.” 172d)]: hence in passive, to be pleased, satisfied, οὐκ ἠρέσκετο λειπομένου Μαρδονίου ὑπὸ βασιλέος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.66)]; τῇ κρίσι with the decision, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.34; διαίτῃ Σκυθικῇ [prev. author] 4.78; τοῖς λόγοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, compare 2.68; τῇ σῇ συνουσίᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theages” 127b)]; later in aorist, ἠρέσθη τῇ γνώμῃ[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus [same place], +others; ἀρεσθεὶς τῷ πώματι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta [prev. cited])]
IV ἀρέσκει is used impersonal to express the opinion or resolution of a public body, ταῦτα ἤρεσέ σφι ποιέειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.19; ἢν δ᾽ ἀρέσκῃ ταῦτ᾽ Ἀθηναίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1311)]; ἀρέσκει.. εἶναι Δελφῶν it is resolved that.., [Refs (“SIG” 827 D 10)]; also of prevailing opinions, ἀρέσκει περὶ τρίψεως παραγγέλλοντας.. writers on massage lay down the rule that.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.96)]; τὰ ἀρέσκοντα the dogmas of philosophers, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.448a, 1006d, etc.)]:—middle, ἐξεῖναι παρ᾽ ὁποτέρους ἂν ἀρέσκηται ἐλθεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.35.)]
V participle ἀρέσκων, ουσα, ον, grateful, acceptable, ὅσοις τάδ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀρέσκονθ᾽[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 274; μηδὲν ἀρέσκον λέγειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.34; ἀρέσκοντας ὑμῖν λόγους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.5.)]
V.2 of persons, acceptable, τὸν ἀρέσκοντα αὑτῷ προσλαμβάνειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 951e; τῇ πόλει ἀ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.13. (Cognate with ἀραρίσκω.))]