Lexical Summary areskeia: a desire to please, pleasing Original Word: ἀρέσκειαTransliteration: areskeia Phonetic Spelling: (ar-es'-ki-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a desire to please, pleasing Meaning: a desire to please, pleasing Strong's Concordance desire to pleaseFrom a derivative of aresko; complaisance -- pleasing. see GREEK aresko Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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)). |
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