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εὐαρεστέω

euarestéō · G2100 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to cause to be pleased, to please

    To cause someone to be well-disposed toward or to be pleased with someone

    Examples

    Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for before he was taken up, he was attested to have been pleasing to God.

    Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for the one who comes to God must believe that He exists, and that He proves to be One who rewards those who seek Him.

    Hebrews 13:16 And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To cause to be pleased, to please25.93
In Hebrews 11:6, the writer states, “without faith it is impossible to please Him, for the one who comes to God must believe that He exists,” using this verb for causing God to be pleased.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀρέσκω aréskō · G700 · to please · 17×εὐάρεστος euárestos · G2101 · pleasing to, pleasingly · 9×ἀρεστός arestós · G701 · pleasing, proper, right · 4×εὐαρεστέωeuarestéō · G2100ἀρεσκεία areskeía · G699 · means of favor, that which pleases · 1×εὐαρέστως euaréstōs · G2102 · pleasing to, pleasingly · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐυαρέστω: 1 aorist infinitive εὐαρεστῆσαι; perfect infinitive εὐηρεστηκέναι, and without…
ἐυαρέστω: 1 aorist infinitive εὐαρεστῆσαι; perfect infinitive εὐηρεστηκέναι, and without augment εὐαρεστηκέναι Heb 11:5 L WH (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 162; Buttmann, 35 (30)); to be well-pleasing: τῷ Θεῷ (the Sept. for אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים הִתְהַלֵּך, Gen 5:22, Gen 5:24; Gen 6:9), Heb 11:5f. (Sir. 44:16; Philo de Abr. § 6; de exsecr. § 9; τίνι, Diodorus 14, 4). Passive present ἐυαρεστοῦμαι; τίνι (Buttmann, 188 (163); Winers Grammar, § 39, 1 a.), to be well pleased with a thing: Heb 13:16 (Diodorus 3, 55; 20, 79; (Diogenes Laërtius 10, 137).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Acceptable To, To Be Pleased With3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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