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G2908κρείσσωνkreissōn

greaterPart of speech: Greek Adjective

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Occurrences by book

  1. Matthew: 0
  2. Mark: 0
  3. Luke: 0
  4. John: 0
  5. Acts: 0
  6. Romans: 0
  7. 3
  8. 2 Corinthians: 0
  9. Galatians: 0
  10. Ephesians: 0
  11. 1
  12. Colossians: 0
  13. 1 Thessalonians: 0
  14. 2 Thessalonians: 0
  15. 1 Timothy: 0
  16. 2 Timothy: 0
  17. Titus: 0
  18. Philemon: 0
  19. 13
  20. James: 0
  21. 1
  22. 1
  23. 1 John: 0
  24. 2 John: 0
  25. 3 John: 0
  26. Jude: 0
  27. Revelation: 0

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19 occurrences in 18 verses

With their references and text in King James Version.

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:9

    But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “better”

  2. 1 Corinthians 7:38

    So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

    κρεῖσσον kreisson “better”

  3. 1 Corinthians 11:17

    Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

    κρεῖσσον kreisson “better”

  4. Philippians 1:23

    For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

    κρεῖσσον· kreisson “better;”

  5. Hebrews 1:4

    Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

    κρείττων kreittōn “superior”

  6. Hebrews 6:9

    But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

    κρείσσονα kreissona “better”

  7. Hebrews 7:7

    And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “superior”

  8. Hebrews 7:19

    For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “of a better”

  9. Hebrews 7:22

    By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “of a better”

  10. Hebrews 8:6

    But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

    κρείττονός kreittonos “of a better”κρείττοσιν kreittosin “better”

  11. Hebrews 9:23

    It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

    κρείττοσιν kreittosin “with better”

  12. Hebrews 10:34

    For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

    κρείττονα kreittona “a better”

  13. Hebrews 11:16

    But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “to a better [one]”

  14. Hebrews 11:35

    Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

    κρείττονος kreittonos “a better”

  15. Hebrews 11:40

    God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

    κρεῖττόν kreitton “better”

  16. Hebrews 12:24

    And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “better thing”

  17. 1 Peter 3:17

    For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “[It is] better”

  18. 2 Peter 2:21

    For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “Better”