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ἀνθρωπάρεσκος

anthrōpáreskos · G441 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. pleasing people, men-pleaser

    Pertaining to causing people to be pleased, with the implication of being in contrast to God or at the sacrifice of some principle

    Examples

    Ephesians 6:6 not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

    Colossians 3:22 Slaves, obey those who are your human masters in everything, not with eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

How it’s used

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

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
Pleasing people, men-pleaser25.98
In Ephesians 6:6, slaves are told to obey their masters “not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers (anthrōpáreskoi), but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,” describing conduct aimed at winning human approval.
Word family 11 words

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

ἀνήρ anḗr · G435 · man, (in the singular) person, human being · 216×ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos · G444 · people, persons, mankind, man · 548×Ἀνδρέας Andréas · G406 · manly; Andreas, an Israelite · 13×ἀνθρώπινος anthrṓpinos · G442 · human, of people, person · 7×ἀνθρωποκτόνος anthrōpoktónos · G443 · murderer · 3×ἀνθρωπάρεσκοςanthrōpáreskos · G441ἀνδραποδιστής andrapodistḗs · G405 · slave dealer, kidnapper · 1×ἀνδρίζομαι andrízomai · G407 · to be brave, to be courageous · 1×Ἀνδρόνικος Andrónikos · G408 · man of victory; Andronicos, an Israelite · 1×ἀνδροφόνος androphónos · G409 · murderer · 1×ὕπανδρος hýpandros · G5220 · married · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνθρωπάρεσκον (ἄνθρωπος and ἄρεσκος agreeable, pleasing, insinuating; cf. εὐάρεσκος,…
ἀνθρωπάρεσκον (ἄνθρωπος and ἄρεσκος agreeable, pleasing, insinuating; cf. εὐάρεσκος, δυσαρεσκος, ἀυταρεσκος in Lob. ad Phryn., p. 621); only in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings. (Winers Grammar, 25): studying to please men, courting the favor of men: Eph 6:6; Col 3:22. (Ps 52:6; (Ps. Sal. Psalms of Solomon 4:8, 10>).)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Acceptable To, To Be Pleased With2 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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