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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:
Read in context →And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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areskeía · ar-es'-ki-ah
complaisance
Strong's KJV usage: :--pleasing.
Strong's first: Colossians 1:10Strong's last: Colossians 1:10
Open full G699 profile →aréskō · ar-es'-ko
to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so)
Strong's KJV usage: :--please.
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 2:4Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 2:4
Open full G700 profile →arestós · ar-es-tos'
agreeable; by implication, fit
Strong's KJV usage: :--(things that) please(-ing), reason.
Strong's first: 1 John 3:22Strong's last: 1 John 3:22
Open full G701 profile →euárestos · yoo-ar'-es-tos
fully agreeable
Strong's KJV usage: :--acceptable(-ted), wellpleasing.
Strong's first: Colossians 3:20Strong's last: Colossians 3:20
Open full G2101 profile →ṭôwb · tobe
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 8:5
Open full H2896 profile →ʻârêb · aw-rabe'
to be agreeable
Strong's KJV usage: be pleasant(-ing), take pleasure in, be sweet.
Strong's first: Hosea 9:4Strong's last: Hosea 9:4
Open full H6149 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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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:
They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
PLE'ASING, participle present tense Gratifying; exciting agreeable sensations or emotions in.
PLE'ASING, adjective Giving pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable to the senses or to the mind; as a pleasing prospect; a pleasing reflection; pleasing manners.
1. Gaining approbation. 1 John 3:1.
PLE'ASING, noun The act of gratifying.
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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