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Koine Greek wordlink #109460

SR GNT Rom 8:8 ἀρέσαι (aresai) ‘flesh being to god to bring_pleasure not are being_able’ Strongs=7000 Lemma=areskō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Refers to Word #109457

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Only use of identical word form ἀρέσαι (V-NAA....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀρέσαι’ (V-NAA....) is always and only glossed as ‘to bring_pleasure’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘areskō’ have 10 different glosses: ‘am bringing_pleasure’, ‘to bring_pleasure’, ‘to_be bringing_pleasure’, ‘I was bringing_pleasure’, ‘he may bring_pleasure’, ‘him let_be bringing_pleasure’, ‘she may bring_pleasure’, ‘she brought_pleasure’, ‘bringing_pleasure’, ‘brought_pleasure’.

Greek words (4) other than ἀρέσαι (V-NAA....) with a gloss related to ‘bring_pleasure’

1COR 7:32 ἀρέσῃ (aresaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘of the master how he may bring_pleasure to the master’ SR GNT 1Cor 7:32 word 13

1COR 7:33 ἀρέσῃ (aresaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘of the world how he may bring_pleasure to his wife and’ SR GNT 1Cor 7:33 word 9

1COR 7:34 ἀρέσῃ (aresaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘of the world how she may bring_pleasure to her husband’ SR GNT 1Cor 7:34 word 24

2TIM 2:4 ἀρέσῃ (aresaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘in_order_that to the one having enlisted him he may bring_pleasure’ SR GNT 2Tim 2:4 word 11

Key: V=verb NAA....=infinitive,aorist,active SAA3..S=subjunctive,aorist,active,3rd person singular