Please, Pleasing (Noun), Well-Pleasing, Pleasure

1. aresko
2. euaresteo
3. eudokeo
4. thelo
5. spatalao

1. arestos
2. euarestos

1. areskeia

aresko signifies
(a) "to be pleasing to, be acceptable to," Matt_14:6; Mark_6:22; Acts_6:5; Rom_8:8; Rom_15:2; 1_Cor_7:32-34; Gal_1:10; 1_Thess_2:15; 1_Thess_4:1 (where the preceding kai, "and," is epexegetical, "even," explaining the "walking," i.e., Christian manner of life, as "pleasing" God; in Gen_5:22, where the Hebrew has "Enoch walked with God," the Sept. has "Enoch pleased God;" cp. Mic_6:8; Heb_11:5); 2_Tim_2:4;
(b) "to endeavor to please," and so, "to render service," doing so evilly in one's own interests, Rom_15:1, which Christ did not, Rom_15:3; or unselfishly, 1_Cor_10:33; 1_Thess_2:4. This sense of the word is illustrated by Moulton and Milligan (Vocab.) from numerous inscriptions, especially describing "those who have proved themselves of use to the commonwealth."

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euaresteo signifies "to be well-pleasing" (eu, "well," and a form akin to aresko); in the Active Voice, Heb_11:5, RV, "he had been "well-pleasing" (unto God)," AV, "he pleased;" so Heb_11:6; in the Passive Voice, Heb_13:16.

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eudokeo signifies
(a) "to be well pleased, to think it good" [eu, "well," and dokeo, see Note 1 after A5 below], not merely an understanding of what is right and good as in dokeo, but stressing the willingness and freedom of an intention or resolve regarding what is good, e.g., Luke_12:32, "it is (your Father's) good pleasure;" so Rom_15:26,27, RV; 1_Cor_1:21; Gal_1:15; Col_1:19; 1_Thess_2:8, RV, "we were well pleased" (AV, "we were willing"); this meaning is frequently found in the papyri in legal documents;
(b) "to be well pleased with," or "take pleasure in," e.g., Matt_3:17; Matt_12:18; Matt_17:5; 1_Cor_10:5; 2_Cor_12:10; 2_Thess_2:12; Heb_10:6,8,38; 2_Pet_1:17.

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thelo "to will, wish, desire," is translated "it pleased (Him)" in 1_Cor_12:18; 1_Cor_15:38, RV. See thelo_under_DESIRE.

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spatalao "to live riotously," is translated "giveth herself to pleasure" in 1_Tim_5:6, RV (AV, "liveth in pleasure"); "taken your pleasure" in James_5:5, AV, "been wanton."

Notes:
(1) In Acts_15:22, AV, dokeo, "to seem good to" (RV), is translated "it pleased" (in some mss., Acts_15:34); in Heb_12:10, AV, "(after their own) pleasure," RV, "(as) seemed good (to them)."
(2) For suneudokeo, rendered "have pleasure in" in Rom_1:32, AV, see suneudokeo_under_CONSENT.
(3) For truphao, rendered "lived in pleasure" in James_5:5 AV, see DELICATELY.

arestos denotes "pleasing, agreeable," John_8:29, RV, "(the things that are) pleasing," AV, "(those things that) please;" AV and RV in 1_John_3:22; in Acts_6:2, "fit" (RV marg., "pleasing"); Acts_12:3, "it pleased," lit., "it was pleasing." See FIT.

See also : arestos in other topics

euarestos eu, "well," and arestos, is translated "well-pleasing" in the RV except in Rom_12:1,2 (see marg., however). See euarestos_under_ACCEPT.

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areskeia a "pleasing," a giving pleasure, Col_1:10, of the purpose Godward of a walk worthy of the Lord (cp. 1_Thess_4:1). It was used frequently in a bad sense in classical writers. Moulton and Milligan illustrate from the papyri its use in a favorable sense, and Deissmann (Bible Studies) from an inscription. In the Sept., Prov_31:30.