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ἀρεσκεία

areskeía · G699 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. means of favor, that which pleases

    That which causes someone to be pleased with something

    Examples

    Colossians 1:10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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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
Means of favor, that which pleases25.91
In Colossians 1:10, Paul prays that the believers “walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please (aréskeian) Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work,” describing a life aimed at winning God's favor.
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×εὐαρεστέω euarestéō · G2100 · to cause to be pleased, to please · 3×ἀρεσκείαareskeía · G699εὐαρέστως euaréstōs · G2102 · pleasing to, pleasingly · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T WH ἀρεσκια (see Iota)), ἀρεσκειας, ἡ (from ἀρεσκεύω to be complaisant; hence, not to…
(T WH ἀρεσκια (see Iota)), ἀρεσκειας, ἡ (from ἀρεσκεύω to be complaisant; hence, not to be written (with R G L Tr) ἀρεσκεία (cf. Chandler § 99; Winers Grammar, § 6, 1 g.; Buttmann, 12 (11))), desire to please: περιπατεῖν ἀξίως τοῦ κυρίου εἰς πᾶσαν ἀρεσκείαν, to please him in all things, Col 1:10; (of the desire to please God, in Philo, opif. § 50; de profug. § 17; de victim. § 3 at the end In native Greek writings commonly in a bad sense: Theophrastus, char. 3 (5); Polybius 31, 26, 5; Diodorus 13, 53; others; (cf. Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited)).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Acceptable To, To Be Pleased With1 occurrence

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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