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Well Pleased

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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A — 1: εὐδοκία

(Strong's #2107 — Noun Feminine — eudokia — yoo-dok-ee'-ah )

"good pleasure," occurs in the genitive case in Luke 2:14 , lit., "(men) of good pleasure" (so RV marg.), RV, "(men) in whom He is well pleased" (the genitive is objective); the AV, "good will (toward men)," follows the inferior texts which have the nominative. See DESIRE , PLEASURE , SEEM , WELL-PLEASING , WILL.

B — 1: εὐδοκέω

(Strong's #2106 — Verb — eudokeo — yoo-dok-eh'-o )

"to be well pleased:" see PLEASE , A, No. 3, WILLING, B, No. 3.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Well Pleased'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​w/well-pleased.html. 1940.
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