Quick Definition
I please
Strong's Definition
to gratify entirely
Derivation: from G2101 (εὐάρεστος);
KJV Usage: please (well)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
εὐαρεστέω, ἐυαρέστω: 1 aorist infinitive εὐαρεστῆσαι; perfect infinitive εὐηρεστηκέναι, and without augment εὐαρεστηκέναι Heb_11:5 L WH (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 162; Buttmann, 35 (30)); to be well-pleasing: τῷ Θεῷ (the Sept. for ΰΖϊΞδΘΰΑμΙδΔιν δΔϊΐδΗμΕΜκ, Gen_5:22; Gen_5:24; Gen_6:9), Heb_11:5 f. (Sir_44:16; Philo de Abr. § 6; de exsecr. § 9; τίνι, Diodorus 14, 4). Passive present ἐυαρεστοῦμαι; τίνι (Buttmann, 188 (163); Winers Grammar, § 39, 1 a.), to be well pleased with a thing: Heb_13:16 (Diodorus 3, 55; 20, 79; (Diogenes Laërtius 10, 137).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
εὐαρεστέω euaresteō 3x
to please, Heb_11:5-6 ; pass. to take pleasure in, be well pleased with, Heb_13:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
εὐαρεοτέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H1980 hith ., Gen_5:22 ; Gen_5:24 , Psa_26:2 ; Psa_56:13 , al ., Sir_44:16 ;]
to be well pleasing : τ . θεῷ ( LXX , ll . c .), Heb_11:5-6 . Pass ., to be well pleased: c . dat ., Heb_13:16 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
εὐαρεστέω [page 259]
This verb, which in the NT is confined to Heb, is found, if we can trust the restoration, in the marriage contract P Oxy II. 265 .48 (A.D. 81 95) καὶ εὐαρ [εστοῦμαι ? τοῦ προγεγρα ]μμέν [ο ]υ μου ἀνδρός . Cf. the double compound in Michel 1001 i. 4 ( c. B.C. 200) συνευαρεστούσας καὶ τᾶς θυγατρὸς Ἐπιτελείας τᾶς Φοίνικος .
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
εὐαρεστέω, -ῶ
[in LXX chiefly for הָלַךְ hith., Gen.5:22, 24, Psa.26:2 56:13, al., Sir.44:16 ;]
to be well pleasing: τ. θεῷ (LXX, ll. with), Heb.11:5-6. Pass., to be well pleased: with dative, Heb.13:16.†
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