Lexicon areskia: a desire to please, pleasing Original Word: ἀρέσκεια, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: areskia Phonetic Spelling: (ar-es'-ki-ah) Short Definition: pleasing, willing service Definition: pleasing, willing service. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 699 areskeía – the effort to fully and properly please (used only in Col 1:10). See 700 (areskō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom areskóDefinitiona desire to please, pleasing NASB Translationplease (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 699: ἀρεσκείαἀρεσκεία ( 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, Colossians 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)).
Strong's desire to please From a derivative of aresko; complaisance -- pleasing. see GREEK aresko |
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