areskō · please

What it means

areskō (ἀρέσκω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “please”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To win someone's favor.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• please ×12
• pleased ×3
• pleasing ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×4
• 1 Corinthians×4
• Galatians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×3
• 2 Timothy×1

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst and pleased Herod,

• Mark 6:22

  And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those reclining with him. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”

• Acts 6:5

  And the matter pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

• Romans 8:8

  and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

• Romans 15:1

  Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

• Romans 15:2

  Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, for building up.

• Romans 15:3

  For even the Messiah did not please himself, but, as it is written: The insults of those who insult you fell on me.

• 1 Corinthians 7:32

  I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

• 1 Corinthians 7:33

  but the married man is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

• 1 Corinthians 7:34

  and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin are concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 10:33

  just as I also please all people in all things, not seeking my own advantage but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

• Galatians 1:10

  For am I trying to win over human beings now, or God? Or am I seeking to please human beings? If I were still pleasing human beings, I would not be a slave of the Messiah.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:4

  but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who tests our hearts.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:15

  who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and who do not please God and are hostile to all people,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:1

  Finally, then, brothers, we ask you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God —just as you indeed are walking— that you abound more and more.

• 2 Timothy 2:4

  No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him.

And 1 more times.