arestem

Strong’sG701

pleasing, satisfactory, acceptable

stem arest-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.

ἀρεστός, -ή, -όν

(< ἀρέσκω), [in LXX for ישׁר, etc.;]

pleasing, agreeable (Hdt., Xen., and later writers; v. Cremer, 641 f; MM, s.v.): c. dat. pers., Jo 8:29, Ac 12:3; seq. ἐνώπιον, c. gen. (Bl., § 37, 1; 40, 7), I Jo 3:22; ἀρεστόν ἐστιν, c. acc. et inf (Bl., § 69, 5; 72, 5), Ac 6:2.†

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

Strong’s G701 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-es-tos'

agreeable; by implication, fit

Fromfrom G700;

King James(things that) please(-ing), reason.

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

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀρεστός [ᾰ], ή, όν,
acceptable, pleasing, Refs 7th c.BC+; οἴνου παρέχειν ἀρεστόν a sufficient quantity, Refs; satisfactory, Refs 2nd c.BC+; of persons, acceptable, approved, τινίRefs 5th c.BC+adverb, ἑωυτῷ ἀρεστῶς quite to his own satisfaction, Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

pleasing3×right1×

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	arestos	arestas	arestem2×ἀρεστόν	arestois	arestais	aresteim2×ἀρεστὰ
object accusative	areston	arestan		arestoin	arestain
direct address vocative	arestor	arestar		arestoir	arestair
of, belonging to genitive	arestou	arestau	aresteu	arestoiu	arestaiu	aresteiu
to, for dative	aresto	aresta	areste	arestoi	arestai	arestei

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

areststem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

arest 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

arestem“right”subject or objectdirect singular2×

Acts 6:2“right”… tem plēthem toiu mathētoiu legala; Ouk arestem atō nin kataleiparantoin ton logon tou …… summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God …

Acts 12:3“pleasing”horarantos de hoti arestem atō toi Ioudaioi prostitheta sullabara kai …And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize …

aresteim“pleasing”subject or objectdirect plural2×

John 8:29“pleasing”… afiēkata min monon, hoti mis teim aresteim auto poiamō pantote.… has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

1 John 3:22… tain entolain autou tēranō kai teim aresteim enōpion autou poianō.… His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.