Acceptance
רָצוֹןStrong’s H7522ratson (ra-tson)
Appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ratson is the Hebrew word usually translated “favor”, “acceptance” and “acceptance your”. It appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.”
Meaning
- Pleasure, delight, favour, goodwill, acceptance, willgoodwill, favour · acceptance · will, desire, pleasure, self-will
How it's translated
- favor 9
- for acceptance 6
- for acceptance your 4
- pleasure 3
- according to pleasure his 3
- will his 2
- according to will their 2
- in favor your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 14
- Psalms 13
- Leviticus 7
- Isaiah 6
- Daniel 4
- Deuteronomy 2
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:3In contextAnd a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
- Daniel 11:16In contextBut he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
- Daniel 11:36In contextAnd the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
- Genesis 49:6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
- Exodus 28:38And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:3If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
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Hebrew dictionary
רָצוֹן ratson · acceptance
1) pleasure, delight, favour, goodwill, acceptance, will 1a) goodwill, favour 1b) acceptance 1c) will, desire, pleasure, self-will
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “acceptance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ACCEPT'ANCE, noun
- A receiving with approbation or satisfaction; favorable reception; as work done to acceptance“They shall come up with acceptance on my altar” Isaiah 60:7
- the receiving of a bill of exchange or order, in such a manner, as to bind the acceptor to make payment.
- An agreeing to terms or proposals in commerce, by which a bargain is concluded and the parties bound.
- An agreeing to the act or contact of another, by some act which binds the person in law; as, a bishop's taking rent reserved on a lease made by his predecessor, is an acceptance of the terms of the lease and binds the party.
All definitions
- In mercantile language, a bill of exchange accepted; as a merchant receives another's acceptance in payment.
- Formerly, the sense is which a word is understood. obsolete
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.