Strong's #700: aresko (pronounced ar-es'-ko)

probably from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so):--please.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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areskō

1) to please

2) to strive to please

2a) to accommodate one' s self to the opinions desires and interests of others

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: probably from G142 (through the idea of exciting emotion)

Citing in TDNT: 1:455, 77

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

Matthew 14:6: "danced before them, and pleased Herod."
Mark 6:22: "and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the"
Acts 6:5: "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and"
Romans 8:8: "in the flesh cannot please God."
Romans 15:1: "weak, and not to please ourselves."
Romans 15:2: "Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to"
Romans 15:3: "For even Christ pleased not himself: but, as"
1 Corinthians 7:32: "that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:"
1 Corinthians 7:33: "that are of the world, how he may please his wife."
1 Corinthians 7:34: "of the world, how she may please her husband."
1 Corinthians 10:33: "Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own"
Galatians 1:10: "God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet"
Galatians 1:10: "for if I yet pleased men, I should not be"
1 Thessalonians 2:4: "we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth"
1 Thessalonians 2:15: "and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and"
1 Thessalonians 4:1: "ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more."
2 Timothy 2:4: "affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."