ἀρέσκω areskō

Greek word for “to please” · Strong’s G700 · used 17 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

ἀρέσκω; 1. to please (Hom., Hdt., al.): with dative of person(s), 15:2, 4:1;

How it is translated

Glosses given for areskō in context, with how often each is used:

• pleased 4
• please 4
• may please 4
• pleasing 3
• should please 1
• please? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 15 (3), 1 Corinthians 7 (3), 1 Thessalonians 2 (2), Matthew 14 (1), Mark 6 (1), Acts 6 (1), Romans 8 (1), 1 Corinthians 10 (1), Galatians 1 (1), 1 Thessalonians 4 (1)

Forms

• ἤρεσεν 4
• ἀρέσῃ 4
• ἀρέσκειν 3
• ἀρέσαι 1
• ἀρεσκέτω 1
• ἀρέσκω 1
• ἤρεσκον 1
• ἀρέσκοντες 1
• ἀρεσκόντων 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with areskō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• μεριμνάω merimnaō “to worry” 3
• πῶς pōs “how?!” 4
• ὀρχέομαι orcheomai “to dance” 2
• ἄγαμος agamos “unmarried” 2
• καθώς kathōs “as/just as” 4
• Ἡρωδιάς Hērōdias “Herodias” 2
• γαμέω gameō “to marry” 2
• θυγάτηρ thugatēr “daughter” 2
• Ἡρώδης Hērōdēs “Herod” 2
• ζητέω zēteō “to seek” 2
• κόσμος kosmos “world” 2
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 2

Key verses

The verses using areskō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Acts 6:5 — And 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…
• Romans 8:8 — So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Romans 15:1 — We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Romans 15:2 — Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
• Romans 15:3 — For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
• 1 Corinthians 7:34 — There 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:…
• 1 Corinthians 10:33 — Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
• Galatians 1:10 — For 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 2:4 — But 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 2:15 — Who 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 4:1 — Furthermore 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…
• 2 Timothy 2:4 — No 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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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.