To please
עָרַבStrong’s H6149arev (a-rev)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arev is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be pleasing”, “may it be pleasing” and “is pleasing”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to be pleasant, be sweet, be pleasing(TWOT) sweet, pleasant
How it's translated
- and it will be pleasing 2
- may it be pleasing 1
- is pleasing 1
- they are pleasing 1
- it was pleasing 1
- you were pleasing 1
- they will be pleasing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Psalms 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
- Malachi 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 3:24When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
- Proverbs 13:19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
- Jeremiah 6:20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
- Jeremiah 31:26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
- Ezekiel 16:37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
- Hosea 9:4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
עָרַב arev · to please
1) (Qal) to be pleasant, be sweet, be pleasing 1a) (TWOT) sweet, pleasant
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “please” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLEASE, verb transitive
s as z. [Latin placere, placeo.]
- To excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to gratify; as, to please the taste; to please the mind.“Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son” Genesis 34:18
- To satisfy; to content.
- To prefer; to have satisfaction in; to like; to choose.“They that are in the flesh cannot please God” Romans 8:8
All definitions and other forms of “please”
PLEASE, verb intransitive
s as z. To like; to choose; to prefer.
- To condescend; to comply; to be pleased; a word of ceremony.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.