areskia: a desire to please, pleasing Original Word: ἀρέσκεια, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: areskia
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-es'-ki-ah)
Short Definition: pleasing, willing service
Definition: pleasing, willing service.
Cognate: 699 areskeía – the effort to fully and properly please (used only in Col 1:10). See 700 (areskō). Word Origin
from areskó
Definition
a desire to please, pleasing
NASB Word Usage
please (1).
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)).
desire to pleaseFrom a derivative of aresko; complaisance -- pleasing. see GREEK aresko
ἀργυροκόπος — 1 Occ.
ἀργύρῳ — 1 Occ.
ἄργυρον — 2 Occ.
ἄργυρος — 1 Occ.
ἀργύρου — 1 Occ.
Ἄρειον — 1 Occ.
Ἀρείου — 1 Occ.
Πάγον — 1 Occ.
Πάγου — 1 Occ.
Ἀρεοπαγίτης — 1 Occ.
ἀρέσαι — 1 Occ.
ἀρέσῃ — 4 Occ.
ἀρέσκειν — 3 Occ.
ἀρεσκέτω — 1 Occ.
ἀρέσκω — 1 Occ.
ἀρέσκοντες — 1 Occ.
ἀρεσκόντων — 1 Occ.
ἤρεσεν — 4 Occ.
ἤρεσκον — 1 Occ.
ἀρεστὰ — 2 Occ.
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