Exodus 21:8
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
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Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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ἀρέσκω
aréskō · ar-es'-ko
11 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so)
Strong's KJV usage: :--please.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 8:8Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:4
Open full G700 profile →טוֹב
ṭôwb · tobe
6 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
Strong's KJV usage: be (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, × please, (be, do, go, play) well.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:5Strong's last: Esther 7:3
Open full H2895 profile →חָפֵץ
châphêts · khaw-fates'
5 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
Strong's KJV usage: × any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 2:7Strong's last: Isaiah 56:4
Open full H2654 profile →יָאַל
yâʼal · yaw-al'
3 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) to undertake as an act of volition
Strong's KJV usage: assay, begin, be content, please, take upon, × willingly, would.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 7:29Strong's last: Job 6:9
Open full H2974 profile →רָצָה
râtsâh · raw-tsaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
to be pleased with; specifically, to satisfy a debt
Strong's KJV usage: (be) accept(-able), accomplish, set affection, approve, consent with, delight (self), enjoy, (be, have a) favour(-able), like, observe, pardon, (be, have, take) please(-ure), reconcile self.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 10:7Strong's last: Proverbs 16:7
Open full H7521 profile →טוֹב
ṭôwb · tobe
2 times translated as this KJV form558 total Strong's occurrences
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
Strong's KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).
Strong's first: Esther 8:5Strong's last: Esther 9:13
Open full H2896 profile →יָטַב
yâṭab · yaw-tab'
2 times translated as this KJV form110 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good(-ness), be (make) merry, please ( well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, × very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 20:13Strong's last: Psalms 69:31
Open full H3190 profile →ἀρεστός
arestós · ar-es-tos'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
agreeable; by implication, fit
Strong's KJV usage: :--(things that) please(-ing), reason.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 8:29Strong's last: John 8:29
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euarestéō · yoo-ar-es-teh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to gratify entirely
Strong's KJV usage: :--please (well).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 11:6Strong's last: Hebrews 11:6
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euárestos · yoo-ar'-es-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
fully agreeable
Strong's KJV usage: :--acceptable(-ted), wellpleasing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Titus 2:9Strong's last: Titus 2:9
Open full G2101 profile →חָפֵץ
châphêts · khaw-fates'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
pleased with
Strong's KJV usage: delight in, desire, favour, please, have pleasure, whosoever would, willing, wish.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 21:6Strong's last: 1 Kings 21:6
Open full H2655 profile →יָשַׁר
yâshar · yaw-shar'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
Strong's KJV usage: direct, fit, seem good (meet), please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 23:27Strong's last: Numbers 23:27
Open full H3474 profile →סָפַק
çâphaq · saw-fak'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to clap the hands (in token of compact, derision, grief, indignation, or punishment); by implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit
Strong's KJV usage: clap, smite, strike, suffice, wallow.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 2:6Strong's last: Isaiah 2:6
Open full H5606 profile →רַע
raʻ · rah
1 times translated as this KJV form657 total Strong's occurrences
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Strong's KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:8Strong's last: Exodus 21:8
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H7451
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
H3474
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
H3190
The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
H2974
Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
H2655
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
H2974
Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
H7521
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
H2895
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
H2895
Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
H2895
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
H2895
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
H2895
If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
H2895
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
H2896
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
H2896
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
H2974
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
H7521
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
H3190
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
H7521
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
H2654
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
H2654
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
H2654
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
H5606
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
H2654
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
H2654
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
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please
PLEASE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin placere, placeo.]
1. To excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to gratify; as, to please the taste; to please the mind.
Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son. Genesis 34:18.
Leave such to trifle with more grace than ease,
Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please
2. To satisfy; to content.
What next I bring shall please
Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire.
3. To prefer; to have satisfaction in; to like; to choose.
Many of our most skilful painters were pleased or recommend this author to me.
To be pleased in or with, to approve; to have complacency in. Matthew 3:17.
To please God, is to love his character and law and perform his will, so as to become the object of his approbation.
They that are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:8.
PLEASE, verb intransitive s as z. To like; to choose; to prefer.
Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease
Assume what sexes and what shapes they please
1. To condescend; to comply; to be pleased; a word of ceremony.
PLEASE you, lords,
In sight of both our battles we may meet.
The first words that I learnt were, to express my desire that he would please to give me my liberty.
PLEASE expresses less gratification than delight.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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