noun · feminine

areskeias

Greekἀρεσκεία (areskeia)

Strong’sG699

pleasing, willing service

stem areskei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

pleasing1×

What it means

ἀρεσκία (Rec. -εία), -ας, ἡ

(< ἀρέσκω), [in LXX (-εία): Pr 31:30 (חֵן)*;]

pleasing, desire to please: Col 1:10. In Gk. writers (Arist., Polyb.), most freq. in bad sense, but in π., Inscr., and in Philo, as above (v. Deiss., BS, 224; MM, s.v.; Cremer, 642).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G699 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-es'-ki-ah

complaisance

Fromfrom a derivative of G700;

King Jamespleasing.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	areskeias	areskeiais
object accusative	areskeian1×ἀρεσκείαν	areskeiain
direct address vocative	areskeiar	areskeiair
of, belonging to genitive	areskeiau	areskeiaiu
to, for dative	areskeia	areskeiai

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

areskeistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

areskeia 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

areskeian“pleasing”objectaccusative singular1×

Colossians 1:10“pleasing”peripatara axiōs tou kuriou eis pantan areskeian en pante erge agathe karpoforarōtois kai auxanirōtois ta epignōsia tou theou,so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,