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רְעוּ

re.ut

pleasure

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Strong’s H7470Noun, feminine2 times in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

the will of2

In the text

Ezra 5:17וּרְעוּת
Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[רְעוּ] n.f. good pleasure, will

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.