Lexicon arestos: pleasing, i.e. fit Original Word: ἀρεστός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: arestos Phonetic Spelling: (ar-es-tos') Short Definition: pleasing, satisfactory, acceptable Definition: pleasing, satisfactory, acceptable. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 701 arestós (an adjective) – pleasing (because in moral agreement). See 700 (areskō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom areskóDefinitionpleasing, i.e. fit NASB Translationdesirable (1), pleased (1), pleasing (1), things that are pleasing (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 701: ἀρεστόςἀρεστός, ἀρεστή, ἀρεστόν ( ἀρέσκω), pleasing, agreeable: τίνι, John 8:29; Acts 12:3; ἐνώπιον τίνος, 1 John 3:22 (cf. ἀρέσκω, a.); ἀρεστόν ἐστι followed by an accusative with an infinitive it is fit, Acts 6:2 (yet cf. Meyer at the passage). (In Greek writings from ( Sophocles) Herodotus down.)
Strong's pleasing, fit. From aresko; agreeable; by implication, fit -- (things that) please(-ing), reason. see GREEK aresko |
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