Strong's Concordance
arestos: pleasing, i.e. fit
Original Word: ἀρεστός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: arestos
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-es-tos')
Short Definition: pleasing, satisfactory, acceptable
Definition: pleasing, satisfactory, acceptable.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 701 arestós (an adjective) – pleasing (because in moral agreement). See 700 (areskō).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 701: ἀρεστόςἀρεστός,
ἀρεστή,
ἀρεστόν (
ἀρέσκω),
pleasing, agreeable:
τίνι,
John 8:29;
Acts 12:3;
ἐνώπιον τίνος,
1 John 3:22 (cf.
ἀρέσκω, a.);
ἀρεστόν ἐστι followed by an accusative with an infinitive
it is fit, Acts 6:2 (yet cf. Meyer at the passage). (In Greek writings from (
Sophocles)
Herodotus down.)
