Greek adjective · G701
ἀρεστός
arestosar-es-tos'
pleasing
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: arestós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G701is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G701
agreeable; by implication, fit
The King James renders it: (things that) please(-ing), reason.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
arestos is rendered "pleasing". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 8:29He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
John 8:29ἀρεστὰ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pleasing3
- desirable1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀρεστὰ2
- ἀρεστόν2
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural2A-APN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2A-NSN
John
one use
He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
- ἀρεστὰarestaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: pleasing
Acts
two uses
So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
- ἀρεστόνarestonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: desirable
And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- ἀρεστόνarestonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: pleasing
1 John
one use
and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
- ἀρεστὰarestaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: pleasing
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.