KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, past-participial, or adjectival form of please. Sense 1: Gave pleasure or satisfaction to, was agreeable or acceptable to, or was gratified. Sense 2: Chose, desired, willed, or saw fit.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 28:8
Complete exact-word concordance
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
And all the people tooke notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoeuer the King did, pleased all the people.
1611 marginal noteHeb. was good in their eyes.
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.
1611 marginal noteHebr. was right in the eyes of &c.
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
In that thou louest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends; for thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes, nor seruants: for this day I perceiue, that if Absalom had liued, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
1611 marginal noteHeb. by louing, &c.
1611 marginal noteHeb. that princes or seruants are not to thee.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Gratified; affected with agreeable sensations or emotions.
