Definition

agreeable; by implication, fit

Etymology

from G700 (ἀρέσκω);

Word family

• ἀρέσκω aréskō

How the KJV renders it

• (things that) please(-ing)
• reason

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.