εὐαρεστέω
to please
‘to please’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2100 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 11:5 εὐαρεστηκέναι perf act inf By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
- Hebrews 11:6 εὐαρεστῆσαι aor act inf Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
- Hebrews 13:16 εὐαρεστεῖται pres pass ind 3sg But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb ευαρεστεω centers on the idea of “to please.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. Hebrews dominates its distribution — 3 of 3 verses. First canonically at Hebrews 11:5, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2100 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 3 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: He pleased 1×, Is well pleased 1×, Please 1×
- American Standard Version: Be well-pleasing 1×, He had been well-pleasing 1×, Is well pleased 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is pleased 1×, One who pleased 1×, Please 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be well pleasing 1×, Have been well pleasing 1×, Is well pleased 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2100 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2100 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2100 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2100 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be well pleasing
- to be well pleased with a thing
Word origin
Derived from ευαρεστος (euárestos) (G2101) — pleasing.
From G2101 ; to gratify entirely : - please (well).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2100 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐαρεστεῖται euaresteîtai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 13:16 | 1 |
| εὐαρεστηκέναι euarestēkénai | Verb, Perfect, Active, Infinitive | Hebrews 11:5 | 1 |
| εὐαρεστῆσαι euarestē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Hebrews 11:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2100, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ευαρεστεω appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 3 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 5:22 εὐαρεστέω
- Exodus 21:8 εὐαρεστέω
- Psalms 25:3 εὐαρεστέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2100) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 5:22 εὐαρεστέω Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:24 εὐαρεστέω Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- Genesis 6:9 εὐαρεστέω This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 17:1 εὐαρεστέω When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Genesis 24:40 εὐαρεστέω He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
- Genesis 39:4 εὐαρεστέω Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
- Genesis 48:15 εὐαρεστέω He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
- Exodus 21:8 εὐαρεστέω If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
- Psalms 25:3 εὐαρεστέω Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
- Psalms 34:14 εὐαρεστέω Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
- Psalms 55:14 εὐαρεστέω We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.
- Psalms 114:9 εὐαρεστέω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2100) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
