PLEASURE

ISBE

plezh'-ur (chephets, ratson; eudokia, hedone: "Pleasure" is the translation of various Hebrew words, chiefly of chephets, "inclination," hence, "pleasure," "delight" ( Job 21:21 , "What pleasure hath he in his house?" the American Standard Revised Version "what careth he for"; Job 22:3 , "Is it any pleasure to the Almighty?"; Ps 111:2 ; Ec 5:4 ; 12:1 ; in Isa 44:28 ; 46:10 ; 48:14 ; 53:10 , it has the sense of will or purpose, "He shall perform all my pleasure," etc.); of ratson, "delight," "acceptance," "good will" ( Ezr 10:11 ; Ne 9:37 ; Es 1:8 ; Ps 51:18 ; 103:21 , etc.); nephesh, "soul," "desire" is translated "pleasure" ( De 23:24 ; Ps 105:22 ; Jer 34:16 ). In the New Testament "pleasure" is the translation of eudokia, "good thought or will," "good pleasure" ( Lu 2:14 the Revised Version margin; Eph 1:5 , 9 ; Php 2:13 ; 2Th 1:11 the Revised Version (British and American) "every desire of goodness," margin "Greek: `good pleasure of goodness.' Compare Ro 10:1 "). "To take pleasure or to have pleasure" is eudokeo ( 2Co 12:10 ; 2Th 2:12 ; Heb 10:6 , 8 , 38 ); eudokeo is once translated "good pleasure" ( Lu 12:32 , "It is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom"); the neuter participle of dokeo, "to think," etc.--meaning "it seems good to me"--to dokoun, is translated "pleasure" ( Heb 12:10 , "after their pleasure," the Revised Version (British and American) "as seemed good to them"); hedone, "sweetness," "pleasure," occurs in Lu 8:14 ; Tit 3:3 ; 2Pe 2:13 (referring to the lower pleasures of life); thelema, "wish," "will" ( Re 4:11 , the Revised Version (British and American) "because of thy will"); charis, "favor" ( Ac 24:27 ; 25:9 , the Revised Version (British and American) "favor"); spatalao "to live voluptuously" ( 1Ti 5:6 , the Revised Version (British and American) "she that giveth herself to pleasure"); suneudokeo, "to think well with," "to take pleasure with others" ( Ro 1:32 , the Revised Version (British and American) "consent with"); truphao, "to live luxuriously" ( Jas 5:5 , the Revised Version (British and American) "lived delicately"). The verb "to pleasure" occurs in 2 Macc 2:27 as the translation of eucharistia, the Revised Version (British and American) "gratitude"; 12:11, ophelesein, the Revised Version (British and American) "to help." W. L. Walker