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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 Darby Bible.

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:9

    But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “better”

  2. 1 Corinthians 7:38

    So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

    κρεῖσσον kreisson “better”

  3. 1 Corinthians 11:17

    But [supplied: in] prescribing [supplied: to you on] this [supplied: which I now enter on], I do not praise, [supplied: namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

    κρεῖσσον kreisson “better”

  4. Philippians 1:23

    But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, [supplied: for] [supplied: it is] very much better,

    κρεῖσσον· kreisson “better;”

  5. Hebrews 1:4

    taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

    κρείττων kreittōn “superior”

  6. Hebrews 6:9

    But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

    κρείσσονα kreissona “better”

  7. Hebrews 7:7

    But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “superior”

  8. Hebrews 7:19

    (for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “of a better”

  9. Hebrews 7:22

    by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “of a better”

  10. Hebrews 8:6

    But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

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

  11. Hebrews 9:23

    [supplied: It was] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

    κρείττοσιν kreittosin “with better”

  12. Hebrews 10:34

    For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

    κρείττονα kreittona “a better”

  13. Hebrews 11:16

    but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

    κρείττονος kreittonos “to a better [one]”

  14. Hebrews 11:35

    Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

    κρείττονος kreittonos “a better”

  15. Hebrews 11:40

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

    κρεῖττόν kreitton “better”

  16. Hebrews 12:24

    and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [supplied: the] blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “better thing”

  17. 1 Peter 3:17

    For [supplied: it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [supplied: as] well-doers than [supplied: as] evildoers;

    κρεῖττον kreitton “[It is] better”

  18. 2 Peter 2:21

    For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known [supplied: it] to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

    κρεῖττον kreitton “Better”