adjective
anthrōpareskos
Strong’sG441
desirous of pleasing men
stem anthrōparesk-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ἀνθρωπ-άρεσκος, -ον
(ἄνθρωπος, ἄρεσκος, pleasing), [in LXX: Ps 52 (53):5*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G441 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
man-pleaser, LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | anthrōpareskos | anthrōpareskas | anthrōpareskem | anthrōpareskois2×ἀνθρωπάρεσκοι | anthrōpareskais | anthrōpareskeim |
| object accusative | anthrōpareskon | anthrōpareskan | anthrōpareskoin | anthrōpareskain | ||
| direct address vocative | anthrōpareskor | anthrōpareskar | anthrōpareskoir | anthrōpareskair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | anthrōpareskou | anthrōpareskau | anthrōpareskeu | anthrōpareskoiu | anthrōpareskaiu | anthrōpareskeiu |
| to, for dative | anthrōparesko | anthrōpareska | anthrōpareske | anthrōpareskoi | anthrōpareskai | anthrōpareskei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
anthrōparesk is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
anthrōpareskois“men-pleasers”subjectnominative plural2×
Ephesians 6:6“men-pleasers”mē kata ofthalmodoulian hōs anthrōpareskois alla hōs doulois Christou poiarōntois tem …… do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of …
Colossians 3:22“people-pleasers”… sarkan kurioi, mē en ofthalmodouliai, hōs anthrōpareskois, alla en haplota kardiau, foborōntois ton …… obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.